Reader Reviews
Dancing at Lughnasa (Library Theatre, Manchester)
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 | As I wandered into the Library theatre, saw the set and heard the 1930's music I had a good feeling about the evening ahead and wasn't dissappointed. It is hard to do this play justice from describing it. It depicts the life of five sisters in rural Irland in 1936. Mainly sheltered from the harsher aspects of the real world all of this is due to change. The play itself depicts their day to day life but through the eyes of the seven year old illegitimate son of Chrissie, here portrayed as an adult looking back, we learn through his narration of the bad things to come that will split this family unit apart. There is no weak link in the acting, directing or design. You feel the warmth of the family and the pressures they live under and through the narrator you learn what they do not yet know of their future lives. This is a powerful piece of theatre, see it before it closes on 15th October - 20.138.246.89) | 05 Oct 05 |
