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Dancing At Lughnasa

Presented by Pinnacle Acting Company at Midvale Performing Arts Center

November 4-November 20, 2010

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This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in l936. They 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, a charming Welsh drifter who strolls up the lane and sweeps his mother away in an elegant dance across the fields. From these small events spring the cracks that destroy 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.

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    Midvale Performing Arts Center

    695 West Center
    Midvale, UT 84047

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    Tickets: $13-$15

    Info Phone: (801) 577-2820

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    Dates:
    November 4-November 20, 2010

    Times:
    Thursday-Friday 7:30pm, Saturday 2:00pm and 7:30pm

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    • Event Name: Dancing At Lughnasa
      "Worthwhile Beyond Words!"
      Review posted by: Evankeliumiontotta from Salt Lake City, UT, Nov 04, 2010
      

      Tonight, Thursday, November 4, my daughter and I were treated to a remarkable theatrical performance by The Pinnacle Acting Company at the Midvale Performing Arts Center. Dancing at Lughnasa is a... Expand

      Tonight, Thursday, November 4, my daughter and I were treated to a remarkable theatrical performance by The Pinnacle Acting Company at the Midvale Performing Arts Center. Dancing at Lughnasa is a show that is worthwhile beyond words! With the tremendously talented eight actors, we traveled to Ireland and relived a bit of life in 1936. We feel most privileged to have been part of the audience of these eight gifted actors and hope that they can know of our sincere appreciation to have been able to witness and experience a night of great theater! The caliber of talent of this fine acting team provided for each of us a wonderful evening... Worthwhile beyond words! Bravo! What a fine show!!! Collapse

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    • Event Name: Dancing At Lughnasa
      "Worthwhile Beyond Words!"
      Review posted by: Evankeliumiontotta from Salt Lake City, UT, Nov 04, 2010
      

      Tonight, Thursday, November 4, my daughter and I were treated to a remarkable theatrical performance by The Pinnacle Acting Company at the Midvale Performing Arts Center. Dancing at Lughnasa is a... Expand

      Tonight, Thursday, November 4, my daughter and I were treated to a remarkable theatrical performance by The Pinnacle Acting Company at the Midvale Performing Arts Center. Dancing at Lughnasa is a show that is worthwhile beyond words! With the tremendously talented eight actors, we traveled to Ireland and relived a bit of life in 1936. We feel most privileged to have been part of the audience of these eight gifted actors and hope that they can know of our sincere appreciation to have been able to witness and experience a night of great theater! The caliber of talent of this fine acting team provided for each of us a wonderful evening... Worthwhile beyond words! Bravo! What a fine show!!! Collapse

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