This week’s main show at Corpus Playroom is Dancing at Lugnasa by Brian Friel. They had their dress rehearsal yesterday. I have a course in London this week, so have taken the opportunity to visit Cambridge, photograph and meet old friends. Many thanks to the cast and crew for letting me join their dress rehearsal. It was a lot of fun!
On Camdram you can read:
Dancing at Lughnasa is the story of five sisters living a fragile life in rural Ireland in 1936, told through flashbacks of the youngest sister’s illegitimate daughter, Michaela. Though the sisters’ tragic fates are revealed through Michaela’s hindsight, the play is lightened by their mutual love and support, shared humour and moments of wild abandon when their erratically functioning radio brings the house to life with sweet blasts of music from a world outside their own.
Into this carefree yet precarious world come their long-lost brother Jack, who has “gone native” after years of missionary work in Uganda; Gerry, Michael’s adventurer father; and the news that their livelihood is threatened by both a changing world and a conservative community.
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Cast
Michaela Evans – Ellen McGrath
Kate Mundy – Stella Pryce
Maggie Mundy – Alex Ciupka
Agnes Mundy – Una McAllister
Rose Mundy – Connie (Harper) Dent
Chris Mundy – Elise Hagan
Gerry Evans – Stanley Thomas
Jack Mundy – Enrico Hallworth
Production Team
Producer – Eve Mair
Director – Enrico Hallworth
Publicity – Charlotte Randall
Executive Producer – Adam Woolf
Choreographer – Joanna Vymeris
Set Designer – Tom Louth
Lighting Designer – Tony Dent
Sound Designer – Tom Bevan
Assistant Director – Connie (Harper) Dent
Costume Designer – Connie (Harper) Dent
Photography – Johannes Hjorth
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