The Buck Creek Players will continue their 35th Anniversary "Award-Winning Season" with Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, winner of the 1992 Tony Award® for Best Play. Performances will be held at 8:00 p.m. on March 13, 14, 20 and 21, with 2:30 p.m. matinees on March 14, 15, 20 and 21. All performances will be held at the Buck Creek Playhouse, 11150 Southeastern Avenue. Tickets are $14 for adults and $12 for students and senior citizens aged 62 or older and can be reserved by calling (317) 862-2270. Group discounts are available for parties of ten or more.
Set in the 1930's, Dancing at Lughnasa focuses on five unmarried sisters living together in the Irish countryside. The household is made up of the imperious teacher Kate (Melissa DeVito), the irreverent Maggie (Christy Walker), the serene and steady Agnes (Lucy Fields), the sweetly eccentric Rose (Sonja Schoene), and the romantic Chris (Rebecca Wolfe), who has given birth to an illegitimate son, Michael (Brian Boyd). The women cling to their knitting needles and the radio, from which music enters the house to distract them from the inevitable change that has begun to overwhelm the simple pleasures and traditions of their village life. Young Michael cleaves to his kite, as his absentee father, Gerry (Ian Walker), unexpectedly arrives on his motorcycle to stir the sisters' fires of passion. Meanwhile, the sisters' older brother, Jack (Jim Thorp), returns home from 25 years of missionary work, ill and disoriented, forgetting his sisters' names and further layering the play's themes of memory and forgetting.Videos