Dancing at Lughnasa

Dancing at Lughnasa

The Semel Theatre
10 Boylston Place Boston

Dancing at Lughnasa took the theater world by storm when it debuted in 1990, winning Olivier, Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Play. In this intimate and lyrical portrait of a country and a family at a crossroads, the now-adult narrator recalls the summer when he was seven years old. It was a tough time, but his mother and aunts -- the proud Mundy sisters -- staved off the hardships of daily life through talk, laughter and dance. Set during the Festival of Lughnasa in rural Ireland of 1936, the play focuses on the sisters as they welcome home their frail missionary brother from Uganda. His arrival is the first of several intersecting events that burst the Mundy sisters' fragile bubble of happiness forever. This is an Emerson Stage production, performed and run by Emerson student actors, designers, stage managers and technicians.

Thru - Nov 9, 2014