Word: lughnasa
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Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa dominated the 1992 Tony awards and this season will be the most produced play in the U.S., with at least 16 major regional stagings. The arrival of his new Wonderful Tennessee was a major Broadway event. Alas, so was its departure at week's end. A lesser work than Lughnasa, it failed because it is also a bleaker one. While Lughnasa portrayed in poignant detail the hard times of the five Mundy sisters in rural Ireland in 1937 and foreshadowed still worse things to befall them, the dominant memory it left...
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...time he recalls and the time he now inhabits. Yet the play also evokes great joy, in small but vivid exchanges of everyday talk and, most boldly, when the sisters erupt, at home and alone, in the life-embracing energy with which they might once again have danced at Lughnasa...
Friel has been much influenced by Chekhov. Aristocrats was unabashedly Chekhovian, a sort of Ballybeg version of The Cherry Orchard. But Chekhov never attempted anything like Lughnasa's narrative complexity, and never wrote so richly about the unprivileged. This time there are no echoes of homage in Friel's work, just authentic originality...