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Article: Arden's 'Dancing at Lughnasa' never quite hits its stride.(Theater Review)
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- March 9, 2006
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Byline: Howard Shapiro
Mar. 9--Sometimes it's tough to get from Point A to Point B. On Thanksgiving weekend, traveling to celebrate. On a snowy morning, finding your way to work. The other night at the Arden Theatre, moving from Act 1 to Act 2.
Irish playwright Brian Friel builds a challenging first act in his bittersweet memory play, Dancing at Lughnasa, which opened at the Arden on Tuesday night, and which I saw in a preview performance. Friel sets his play in tiny Ballybeg, County Donegal, where we watch the five grown, close-knit Mundy sisters as they eke out lives in their family home in the summer of 1936.
Nothing much happens -- and ...
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Article: `Dancing at Lughnasa': Simply wonderful
The Boston Globe;
November 23, 1991 ;
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...DANCING AT LUGHNASA. Play in two acts by Brian Friel Directed ... play is Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa," and it's a beauty. The joy that ... and accumulated pain. If "Dancing at Lughnasa" never quite reaches that level again ...
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