DANCING AT LUGHNASA
	By Brian Friel Directed by Joy Baker Dennis June 11-21, 1998 Civic Theatre Playhouse Thursdays - Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. Sundays at 2:00 p.m.
DESCRIPTION	The winner of three Tony Awards, including Best Play. This play speaks not only in the language of words, but also in the rhythms that carry us through the dance of life. The year is 1936 and it is the time of the Lughnasa, a pagan harvest festival when the Irish country folk take to the hills for days of collecting bilberries and nights of wild dancing. The narrator, Michael, offers us a recollection of this time, the seventh summer in his life, with his unwed mother, his four maiden aunts, his wandering father, and his ailing missionary uncle. In their tiny cottage two miles outside the village of Ballybeg, County Donegal, their drab, impoverished existence is relieved only by the music from the occasionally working wireless radio and the memories of past Lughnasas. As Michael explains, dancing is their language "to whisper private and sacred things" and the five Mundy sisters use that language to express all of the desires, dreams and human longings that elude their earthbound lives.