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Oldham Coliseum, Quaytickets Tue, 22nd February 2011 - Sat, 26th February 2011 From £16.00*Brian Friel’s Olivier award winning play Summer 1936. A cottage in the remote Irish village of Ballybeg, the five Mundy sisters live a simple life in the shadow of the hills of Donegal with their recently returned brother Jack, a missionary priest, seven year old Michael and a wireless set called ‘Machoney’. Years later the grown up Michael looks back at that fateful summer when the knockings of change finally caught up the Mundy family. We see the sisters laugh, cry and dance in their boots in the foothills of Ballybeg, fighting the forces of change in the only way they can as the dusk sets on the life they know. The play paints a vivid and life affirming portrait of these brave women following their loss of love and opportunity played out against the echoes of the twentieth century with a dark humour, raw energy and tenderness. Brian Friel is Ireland’s most prolific and distinguished living playwright, his plays include Aristocrats, Molly Sweeney, Philadelphia Here I Come, Faith Healer, The Home Place and Translations. Premiered in 1990, Dancing At Lughnasa has previously been produced in the West End and on Broadway, winning a Lawrence Olivier Award and three Tony Awards, it has also been made into an award winning film starring Meryl Streep and Michael Gambon.
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