Dancing At Lughnasa

Dancing at Lughnasa

Written by Brian Friel

Directed by Dean Valentino

This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. Their spare existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to the romance and hope of the world at large. The action of the play is told through the memory of the illegitimate son of one of the sisters as he remembers the five women who raised him: his mother and four maiden aunts. He is only 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 from correct Catholic women to shrieking, stomping banshees in their own kitchen. And he meets his father for the first time. Widely regarded as Brian Friel's masterpiece, this haunting play is Friel's tribute to the spirit and valor of the past. The play won the 1992 Tony Award® for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway Play, and was chosen by TIME Magazine as one of the ten best plays for 1991. DANCING AT LUGHNASA was selected as part of Korda’s second public call for production proposals and will be directed by Dean Valentino, who most recently directed 2025’s Murder on the Orient Express at Korda

“The most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie.” – TIME Magazine

“…this play does exactly what theater was born to do, carrying both its characters and audience aloft on those waves of distant music and ecstatic release that, in defiance of all language and logic, let us dance and dream just before night must fall.” – The New York Times

SHOW DATES March 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27 & 28, 2026

Friday, March 13, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. –Opening Night

Saturday, March 14, 2026, at 8:00 p.m.

Sunday, March 15, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. – Matinee

Thursday, March 19, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. – Pay-What-You-Can

Friday, March 20, 2026, at 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, March 21, 2026, at 8:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 26, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. – Scent-Free Night

Friday, March 27, 2026, at 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, March 28, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. – Closing Night

“This is no way a play to be missed—simply a wondrous experience. Experience it.” – New York Post.

CAST

MARNIE GARE as Kate Mundy

AVERY THOMAS as Agnes Mundy

GEORGIE SAVOIE as Chris Mundy

BRANDON CHAPPUS as Gerry Evans

JOEY WRIGHT as Jack Mundy

REBECCA LASHMAR as Maggie Mundy

KORY PINEAU as Michael Mundy (elder)

LARISSA DAWN as Rose Mundy

THOMAS PRENEY as Michael Mundy (younger)

CREATIVE TEAM

Director DEAN VALENTINO

Assistant Director ALEX HAGEN

Assistant Director / Stage Manager NARVIN FAZLALISERKANI

Producer JOEY WRIGHT

Technical Team Lead NOAH BALL

Technical Team Lead OWL FOSTER

Assistant Stage Manager JESSE FOSTER

Stage and Costuming KAREN KILBRIDE

Stage and Costuming KATE RITZA