Dancing at Lughnasa - Brian Friel

this is another play i read and performed for my drama exam. I played the part of Rose in the opening scene. this is a funny, sad but heart warming play set in the back and beyond in a fictoinal town called Ballybeg. It tells the story of five sisters living alone together in a falling-down cottage outside of the village. Michael Mundy tells the tale of his aunties life over the period of two days as he recalls some of his past memories. The mundy sisters are all unmarried, but one has an illegitimate son, which was frowned apon in the 1930's, in a catholic country. Kate, 40, the eldest sister ... more