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MILL HALL -- The Central Mountain High School Drama Club is making its return to the world of plays with Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel.
The club will be performing Nov. 3 at 7 p.m., Nov. 4 at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., and Nov. 5 at 2 p.m.
The cost is $10 for general admission and $8 for student/drama club alumni.
Dancing at Lughnasa hailed by Time magazine as "the most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie," Dancing at Lughnasa is set in the summer of 1936 during the Celtic harvest festival of Lughnasa. Five unmarried sisters -- Kate, Maggie, Agnes, Rose and Chris -- live in the rural Irish countryside outside the tiny village of Ballybeg; loosely based on the lives of Friel's mother and aunts, the play is a rich and deeply moving portrait of their everyday lives, as remembered through the eyes of Chris's seven-year-old son, Michael, now an adult.
First staged at Ireland's Abbey Theatre in 1990, Dancing at Lughnasa transferred to London in 1991, winning both the Olivier and Evening Standard awards for best play. It opened on Broadway the following year, earning additional Tony and New York Drama Critics' Circle best play awards. Overwhelming international recognition brought it to the big screen in 1998 with Meryl Streep in the role of Kate.
The cast list will include high school students Kaidyn Rogers, Kelly Corbin, Chloe Corbin, Elaina Packer, Kathryn Farrall, Seth Geyer, Thomas Geyer and Connor Kleckner.
There will be live instrumentation by Sarah Long and understudy Adalind Parker.