Preview of 'Dancing at Lughnasa' at CTAW

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DANCING AT LUGHNASA

By Brian Friel
Directed by Sarah Robards & Kate Robards
Performance Dates: March 10, 11, & 17, 18 at 7:30 pm
March 12, 19, at 2 pm 2017
Historic Old Town Hall
7 Mountain Road, Woodbury, CT 06798

Loosely based on the lives of Friel’s mother and aunts, this extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. The action of the play is told through the memory of Michael, the illegitimate son of one of the sisters as he remembers the five women who raised him. He is seven in 1936, the year his elderly uncle, a priest, returns after serving for twenty-five years as a missionary in a Ugandan leper colony. For the young boy, two other disturbances occur that summer. The sisters acquire their first radio, whose music transforms them. And he meets his father for the first time. From these small events spring the cracks that dismantle the foundation of the family forever. Widely regarded as Brian Friel's masterpiece, this haunting play is Friel's tribute to the spirit and valor of the past. Dancing at Lughnasa was the winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.

The Woman's Club of Woodbury, which just celebrated its 120th anniversary, has been a sponsor of
CTAW's 2016-2017 season and will be selling refreshments at the “Dancing at Lughnasa”, March 19th
matinee.

Good News Cafe of Woodbury will be purveyor of wine and beer during all performances. Doors
open forty-five minutes before show time.
Tickets may be purchased through CTAW’s website www.ctaw-ct.org or by calling Woodbury Parks and
Rec at (203) 263-3113. General Admission $20 - Senior/Under 18 $16