There are countless scripts we'd love to perform, but reality has its limits. Let's scratch the itch to be dramatic and explore scripts beyond our on-stage season with a theatrical book club, of sorts.

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Greek Comedies, ​Absurdist Fiction, Elizabethan Classics... options are endless for a no-obligation monthly perusal. Let's first test the room and measure the interest. The inaugural title for play will be Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel. Reserve your spot at the bottom of the page.

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Is there a title you would like to have us read? Would you like to lead a session? Contact us!

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Next Play Selection: Dancing at Lughnasa

Reading Location: Smoke on the Water, Coleraine.

Time: March 25, 6pm-9pm

Agenda: Assign roles. Dramatically read through the script. Discuss the play.

Order food and drinks on separate checks as you wish.

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The Play as described by Dramatists Play Service:

Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel

Full Length, Drama
3 men, 5 women

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​THE STORY: This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. 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 an 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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Roles:

Maggie Mundy -Lead

Kate Mundy -Lead

Agnes Mundy -Lead

Rose Mundy -Lead

Michael Mundy -Lead

Christina Mundy -Lead

Father Jack Mundy -Supporting

Gerry Evans -Supporting