Dancing at Lughnasa
Brian Friel’s multi-award-winning drama is a joyful and moving exploration of reflection, memory and how the future will arrive no matter how much we resist.
I want to dance, Kate. It’s the festival of Lughnasa. I’m only thirty five. I want to dance.’
On the outskirts of Ballybeg, County Donegal, the five Mundy sisters are enthralled by their new wireless. The festival of Lughnasa is fast approaching, and the summer harvest brings the promise of love and adventure. Filled with optimism and fuelled by music, the sisters can't resist the urge to dance.
But when influences from a wider, more modern world creep into their home, the sisters’ are swept along in a sea of change and suddenly the life they know is gone for good.
Creative Team
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Elizabeth Newman
Director
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Sundeep Saini
Movement Director
About Sunny
Sundeep Saini is a movement director and choreographer passionate about driving narrative through physicality. She has worked with; children from 3 years old up to adults, community ensembles and professional companies, actor-musicians, classical actors and musical theatre performers, people with and without disabilities and strives to push them all to reach their full potential in both technique and performance.
She is a creative with a keen focus on embedding a movement vocabulary into a piece and strives to build character, narrative, musicality and production style whilst pushing the boundaries of choreography and movement.