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DRAMA
Mon 22 Feb 2010 at 11am & 8pm, Tues 23 Feb 11am only, Mon 22 March at 10am and 1.30pm.
Dancing at Lughnasa
Splódar Theatre Co
Matinees all tickets €10, evening tickets €15, Friends €12
Booking: matinee performances are not available for online booking, please book on our box office line 0749120777.
Mon 22 Feb at 8pm: book online
Pre-show Cream Tea
Customers will sit down to a delicious array of freshly baked treats and fancies, such as Victoria sponge cake, lemon cake, carrot cake, chocolate brownies, petit fours, scones with jam and cream, delicate finger sandwiches and plenty more besides.
Above: patrons at our last tea event.
Prebooking essential as places are limited and the food is being baked fresh to order. Our caterer can provide gluten free options so please let us know of any special dietary requirements at the time of booking.
Tea will be served from 6.30pm to 7.30pm, with the performance starting at 8pm.
Cost for tea and show: €20, book at our box office now.
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Brian Friel's classic drama set in 1930s Donegal tells the story of a bitter harvest for the Mundy sisters.
Dancing at Lughnasa is considered to be one of the great theatrical successes of modern times. This play of layered meanings, conflicting rituals and family tensions has been described as ‘an invocation of the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation but also of the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which they are nonetheless a part’.
In 1936 the five unmarried Mundy sisters live in Ballybeg Co. Donegal. Michael the eight year old love child of the youngest sister lives with them and it is through him as an adult that the story is told. His memories of that fateful time, centred round the festival of the Celtic god Lugh brings into sharp focus images of love and loss, and indeed moments of intense emotion expressed in a wild primeval dance which gives the play its name.
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