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Dancing at Lughnasa
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Dancing at Lughnasa
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Brian Friel
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:80 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 125 |
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| Category/Genre | Plays, playscripts |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780571144792
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| Classifications | Dewey:822.914 |
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| Audience | | Primary & Secondary Education | |
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| Edition |
Main
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Faber & Faber
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| Imprint |
Faber & Faber
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| Publication Date |
21 May 1990 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after twenty-five years, and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of the menage, Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which they are nonetheless a part.
Author Biography
Born 9 January 1929, Catholic, in Omagh, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, Brian Friel is one of Ireland's most prominent playwrights. In addition to his published plays, he has written short stories; screenplays; film, TV and Radio adaptations of his plays; and several pieces of non-fiction on the role of theatre and the artist.
Reviews"There is no doubting we are in the thrall of as masterly a dramatist as the theatre possesses." --The Times
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