Auditions for Dancing at Lughnasa Held at Laurel Mill Playhouse

Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main Street, Laurel, Md. will hold auditions for 5 women and 3 men on Tuesday, February 22 at 7pm and Thursday, February 24 at 7pm. Director Ben Fisler will have sides available for cold readings from the script. Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service Inc. Dialects encouraged for auditions but not required as cast will learn the dialects as part of the rehearsal process. Dancing at Lughnasa will run from April 15 to May 8 on Friday and Saturday evenings with two selected Sunday matinees. For more information, please contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557. Additional information about LMP can be found at www.laurelmillplayhouse.org.

Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Chosen by Time magazine as one of the ten best plays for 1991, saying it is "The most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie." "...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." -NY Times. "This is no way a play to be missed-simply a wondrous experience. Experience it." -NY Post.

unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in l936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. Their spare existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to the romance and hope of the world at large. The action of the play is told through the memory of the illegitimate son of one of the sisters as he remembers the five women who raised him, his mother and four maiden aunts. He is only seven in 1936, the year his elderly uncle, a priest, returns after serving for twenty-five years as a missionary in a Ugandan leper colony. For the young boy, two other disturbances occur that summer. The sisters acquire their first radio, whose music transforms them from correct Catholic women to shrieking, stomping banshees in their own kitchen. And he meets his father for the first time, a charming Welsh drifter who strolls up the lane and sweeps his mother away in an elegant dance across the fields. From these small events spring the cracks that destroy the foundation of the family forever. Widely regarded as Brian Friel's masterpiece, this haunting play is Friel's tribute to the spirit and valor of the past.

 

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