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Roadside Theater proudly presents

Brian Friel's

Directed by Ron Paoletti

Widely regarded as Brian Friel's masterpiece, this extraordinary play is the winner of four Tony Awards (including Best Play), the Oliver Award, and the Drama Critics and Outer Critics Circle Awards. It was voted in the top 50 of the best plays of the past century, and Brian Friel was chosen in the top 20 of the best playwrights. DANCING AT LUGHNASA features wonderful characters and a fascinating, touching story.

"...this play does exactly what theater was born to do, carrying both its characters and audience aloft in those waves of distant music and ecstatic release that, in the defiance of all language and logic, let us dance and dream just before night must fall."
NY Times review

This is the account of the five unmarried Mundy sisters who live two miles outside the village of Ballybeg, County Donegal, Ireland: the strong-willed teacher and matriarch Kate, the irreverent and vibrantly optimistic prankster Maggie, the serene and hard-working Agnes, the sweetly eccentric and simpleminded Rose, and the lonely romantic Christina, who has tainted the family reputation with her illegitimate son, Michael.

As a memory play, the events and characters of the play are presented to us as the recollections of the adult Michael, who looks back to the summer harvest time of 1936, when he was seven years old.  The memories of that summer haunt Michael into manhood. As Michael tells us in the opening monologue, his memories of Ballybeg are full of "a sense of . . .  things changing too quickly before my eyes." 

The Mundy home is bursting at the seams with the return from Africa of their brother Jack, a missionary priest. But his return is compounded by the brilliant images of African customs he brings to the misty farm's traditional way of life, and when Michael's father unexpectedly arrives, a dreamer who returns to his son so sporadically the boy fails to recognize him.

DANCING AT LUGHNASA takes place at the end of that summer, on the eve of celebration to the harvest deity Lugh, god of music and light. But the celebration really lives within the sisters, a gift they share with each other and the ones they love.

But now it is the threshold of autumn, when events at the time of the Festival of Lughnasa will conspire to irretrievably change them all forever......

Performances: March 24, 25, 30, 31, and April 1, 6, 7.
This production will be an entry in the Europe-wide
"Tournament of Plays" competition (judged on acting, directing, tech, etc)

Reservations highly recommended for all performances

Cast and Crew 

Michael -- Scott Fults

Kate -- Jeanne Ragonese

Maggie -- Julie Culjak

Agnes -- Laurie Waters

Chris -- Heather Powell

Rose -- Victoria Lutz

Jack -- Albert Riley

Gerry -- Paul Meredith

Stage Manager -- Jennifer Spohn, Jane Helfrich

Properties -- Nina Cartier

Set Design &Technical Director-- Patrick Strain

Sound Design -- Scott Fults and Vic Phillipson

Light and Sound -- Gary Giorgis