Dancing at Lughnasa
Live Theatre Workshop
Thru 3/30
from the website: http://www.livetheatreworkshop.org/main.html
Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway Play, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Chosen by Time magazine as one of the ten best plays for 1991, saying it is "The most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie." Widely regarded as Brian Friel's masterpiece, this extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters, one with a young son, eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. It is the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. Their spare existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to the romance and hope of the world at large. When the sisters finally dance to a wild, pagan Irish tune, they embody the core of the human spirit that cannot be vanquished by time or loss, or fully expressed in language.
I haven't checked on ticket availability, wanted to see if anyone was interested.
Surely someone else wants to dance to a wild, pagan Irish tune!
~Judy
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4 comments:
I'd like to, of course! Trouble will be in finding an available night--but you can start looking.
If we can get in before the 24th that would be best, as our transition planner comes back that week and I am rarely home before 8pm during those weeks.
I would not want my schedule to hold up the rest of you, though!
~ Robin
Oh come on, Robin-he's not funny and definitely not cute-not worth staying out until 8pm for!! : )
~Judy
Due to all the upcoming events, I'm going to withdraw the Dancing at Lughnasa outing. I've spent my fun money for the next 5 months it seems!
~Judy
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