FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 4, 2004 |
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Erica Rountree (404) 364-8447
nsmith@oglethorpe.edu
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 Oglethorpe University Playmakers Invite Audiences into an
Irish Celebration
ATLANTA -- The Playmakers of Oglethorpe University present
"Dancing at Lughnasa" by contemporary Irish playwright Brian Friel,
directed by Deborah Merola. This extraordinary play tells the story
of five unmarried sisters and a young son in a small Irish village
in 1936. Their parochial world is disrupted by the return of Father
Jack, the sisters’ elder brother, who has been a missionary priest
in Uganda for 25 years. Also the father of the young boy shows up,
again sweeping the youngest sister off her feet. Other disturbances
come from the music beamed into the kitchen from a new wireless
radio and the harvest festival of Lughnasa, a time of pagan revelry.
Animated by the music of Irish fiddler Mick Kinney and African
drummer Leonard Arthur, “Dancing at Lughnasa” is a family play that
celebrates both ceremony and innocence.
"… this play does exactly what theater was born to do, carrying
both its characters and audience aloft on those waves of distant
music and ecstatic release that, in defiance of all language and
logic, let us dance and dream just before night must fall."
–The New
York Times
"Dancing at Lughnasa"
Conant Performing Arts Center
Nov. 18-20, 2004
8 p.m.
Tickets: $5 for off-campus guests. Reservations not necessary. Free
for OU students, faculty and staff with ID.
For ticket information, call (404) 504-1074 or visit the
Theatre Page.
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