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Dancing at Lughnasa is a play by Brian Friel set in Ireland's County Donegal in August 1936. It is set in a fictional town called Ballybeg (small town in Gaelic). It is a play told from the point of view of Michael, who is the narrator . The play is based on hos memories and his recollections about the summer he spent in his aunts' cottage when he was seven years old.

The story of the play is that there are five Mundy sisters (Kate, Maggie, Agnes, Chris, Rose), all unmarried. They live in a small cottage outside of town. Kate, the oldest, is a school teacher and is the only member with employment. Agnes and Rose knit gloves to be sold in town and help maintain the house with Maggie and Chris (Michael's mother) who have no income at all. Jack is their brother who has just recently returned home. He is a priest who has lived as a missionary in a leper colony in Uganda for 25 years. He is suffering from malaria and has trouble remembering many things, including the sisters' names and his English vocabulary. Gerry, Michael's father, is charming but is completely unreliable. He is a clown and a vagabond he visits rarely and always arrives unannounced. He has returned this time to inform everyone that he is joining the International Brigade to fight in the Spanish Civil War.

The Original Cast on First Play was Frances Tomelty as Kate Mundy, Anita Reeves as Maggie Mundy, Bríd Ní Neachtain as Rose Mundy, Bríd Brennan as Agnes Mundy, Catherine Byrne as Christina Mundy, Gerard McSorley as Michael Evans, Paul Herzberg as Gerry Evans and Barry McGovern as Jack. The play was directed by Patrick Mason. "Dancing at Lughnasa," was made into a film in 1998 starring Meryl Streep as Kate Mundy and directed by Pat O'Connor.

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