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Rousuck's Review: "Dancing at Lughnasa" at Everyman Theatre

Photo Courtesy Everyman Theatre

This week, Midday's esteemed theater critic, J. Wynn Rousuck, joins us for a review of Dancing at Lughnasa.  

Director Amber Paige McGinnis brings playwright Brian Friel's 1990 Tony Award-winning fable of family, harvest and hearth to Baltimore'sEveryman Theatre.  The play is set in 1930s Donegal, Ireland, and tells the tale of the five Mundy sisters, characters reportedly inspired by the playwright's own mother and aunts.  Friel, who is often referred to as the "universally accented voice of Ireland" uses carefully crafted prose and empathetic protagonists to transport the audience to an Ireland that remains hopeful, even in the shadow of economic depression and political turmoil.  

Dancing at Lughnasa continues at Everyman Theatre through Sunday, October 7.   

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