In its latest celebration of women, Women’s Theatre Collective (WTC) is staging Brian Friel’s hauntingly beautiful memory play, Dancing at Lughnasa. Set in Ballybeg, Ireland, in 1936, it follows a ...
It’s not often you can sense the quality of a production from the set, but Francis O’Connor’s wonderful use of the vast Crucible thrust stage convinced me that Elizabeth Newman’s take on Brian Friel’s ...
For the BarnArts outdoor production of Dancing at Lughnasa in Woodstock, the audience faces a grassy field and a distant, ancient tree. The grass ripples behind a platform casually strung with ...
A country in political turmoil, a new technology upending traditional life, and women struggling to define themselves within a repressive system. Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, set in 1930s ...