Dartmouth Players Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel This Olivier award-winning play is set in the summer of 1936, in the Donegal home of the Mundy sisters. The only real breadwinner is the oldest sister, Kate, who teaches at the local school. Agnes and Rose earn a pittance knitting gloves, while the youngest sister, Chris, is the unmarried mother of a seven-year-old son, Michael, whose older self acts as the play's narrator. . The title comes from a pagan Irish festival and the contrast between Catholicism and pagan ritual is a constant theme. The sisters' older brother, Jack has recently returned from Africa where he served as a missionary priest in a leper colony. Far from converting the Africans, however, it is hilariously revealed that he went native and began to worship African gods. Brian Friel has been described as the "Irish Chekov" and here is one of his masterpieces, brought to you by the Dartmouth Players, your community drama group.