Dancing At Lughnasa

كتاب Dancing At Lughnasa
المؤلف: Brian Friel

There is no doubting we are in the thrall of as mas- terly a dramatist as the theatre possesses . ' The Times 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 up to forty . The two male members of the household are brother Jack , a mis- sionary priest , repatriated from Africa by his superi- ors after twenty - five years , and the seven - year - old child of the youngest sister . In depicting two days in the life of this ménage , 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 .