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by Brian Friel (Author)
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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (21 May 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571144799
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571144792
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.4 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"There is no doubting we are in the thrall of as masterly a dramatist as the theatre possesses." --"The Times"


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A new play from Brian Friel whose previous works include "Philadelphia, Here I Come". Set over two days in a house just outside the Irish village of Ballybeg, the play tells the story of the five Mundy sisters, their brother Jack who is a priest and the illegitimate son of the younger sister.

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5.0 out of 5 stars "Dancing...the very heart of life and all its hopes.", 29 Sep 2004
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Set in Donegal in 1936, during Ireland's change from an agrarian to a more industrial economy, Brian Friel's haunting ensemble drama of five sisters and their priest brother reveals the economic, social, and religious pressures in the rural community of Ballybeg on the eve of the harvest festival of Lughnasa. Forty-ish Kate, who sees herself "in charge," is the only real wage earner in the family. Rigid, severe, and completely lacking in humor, she believes pagan celebrations, such as Lughnasa, which provide fun and enjoyment in the countryside, are "uncivilized." Her brother Jack, however, a priest on furlough from work in Uganda, is now virtually a pagan himself. His work has shown him the need of the poor for happiness, dancing, and community celebration, even if it is not church-sanctioned.

The other Mundy sisters help illustrate the chasm between Kate's attitudes and those of Fr. Jack. Maggie, the fun-loving, free-spirited, and most humorous of the sisters, constantly bursts into song and dance and longs to go to the town dance. Christina feels no shame whatever about her love-child and thoroughly enjoys the summer visit of his father, Gerry Evans, with whom she dances spontaneously. Aggie and Rose, who earn small wages knitting gloves, work tirelessly as the family's sad, "unpaid servants," constantly chafing against Kate's imposition of her own values on them. Rose, described as "simple," is in love with a married man and sneaks out to have fun with him. When the local priest fails to rehire Kate because of Fr. Jack's apparent paganism, the family is devastated, but it is at that moment that they recognize the need to celebrate life itself.

The narrator is Michael, Christina's love-child, now in his fifties, who sets the scene and comments on the action throughout. Though Michael himself participates in the action as a child, the child is invisible to the audience. The characters speak to him as if he were real, and the adult Michael responds, but to the actors on stage, it is the narrator who is invisible. The message of the play is far stronger here than in its film version, starring Meryl Streep. In the play Kate is more hostile, and the fates of Aggie and Rose are revealed early, not withheld till the end. Fr. Jack's paganism is not regarded simply as mental illness, and the "clan of the round collar" is held to closer scrutiny. The play, though dark, is ultimately a joyful celebration of life itself, a life not bound by organized religion. Mary Whipple

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best plays of the 1990's., 12 Sep 2000
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I discovered Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa through my Theatre Studies A Level course, as it was one of my set texts and I could write scores of essays on it's merits but that wouldn't do it justice. I don't think anyone can realise the true beauty of the writing and of the play itself unless they read the text or see a production of the play for themselves. Good as it may be, the film version cannot hold a candle to this superb play.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Dancing at Lughnasa, 12 April 2009
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To be honest I've not read it, it was a present for Mothers day, but Mum enjoyed it and gave it the 4 star rating.
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