Seanachaí Theatre Company announces that the first show at its new home, The Irish American Heritage Center (4626 N. Knox Avenue), will be the modern classic DANCING AT LUGHNASA by Brian Friel, running from February 25th to April 4th 2010.
Elise Kauzlaric (Non-Equity Jeff Nomination: Best Director) directs Ensemble members Barbara Figgins, Carolyn Klein, Anne Sunseri, Kevin Theis and Sarah Wellington. Rounding out the cast are Don Bender and Simone Roos.Set design for DANCING AT LUGHNASA is by Alan Donahue, Lighting by Sarah Hughey, Sound by Joe Court and Costumes by Aly Greaves. Ellen Gahl Waller of Trinity Irish Dancers is Choreographer, and Erin Diener is Stage Manager.
DANCING AT LUGHNASA is Brian Friel's joyous memory piece recounting the yearnings and sublimation of love by the five Mundy sisters. Living out a mundane existence in the rural village of Ballybeg in 1936, the family's reputation is precariously balanced between the shame of the youngest sister's illegitimate son, Michael, and their pride for the eldest brother, Father Jack.Friel uses the Irish pagan festival of the harvest, La Lughnasa, as the flash point: Father Jack returns from his African missionary much changed from the young priest revered by all, while the re-appearance of Michael's itinerant father tests more than one sister's resolve.
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