Titchfield Festival Theatre - Dancing at Lughnasa

Titchfield Festival Theatre continue their Irish Season in April with their production of Dancing at Lughnasa.

Set in fictional Ballybeg in Donegal , Brian Friel’s award winning play tells the moving and often funny story of the five Mundy sisters through the eyes of Michael their seven year old nephew.
The play's title comes from a pagan Irish festival, celebrating the harvest, and the contrast between Catholicism and pagan ritual is a constant theme of the play. The sisters' older brother, Jack has recently returned from Africa where he served for a quarter of a century as a missionary priest in a leper colony. Far from converting the Africans, however, it is gradually and hilariously revealed that he went native and began to worship African gods.
And though they are good Catholic girls, the sisters have their pagan side too. In the play's most celebrated scene, they dance like mad whirling, stamping dervishes to the thirties dance music coming out of their antique radio, a tumultuous celebration of life and wildness with more than a hint of chronic sexual frustration about it.

This bitter sweet comic play is an ideal treat to enjoy before the Easter festivities particularly with the whole theatre coming alive with Irish dancing before the play and live Irish music at the interval, all washed down with the proverbial drop of guinness or murphy’s at the bar.

The show runs from the 11th -16th April at 7.30pm each night tickets from £9.00 with cumulative concessions!

Family tickets and block bookings available. Box Office 01329 556156 or book online at http://tinyurl.com/rng5t

Date: Monday, April 11, 2011

Repeats: Every Day until Saturday, April 16, 2011