Dancing at Lughnasa: Winner of the 1992 Tony Award® for Best Play.
Set during the late summer harvest focused Festival of Lughnasa (LOO-na-SA) in 1936 just outside the fictional Irish town of Ballybeg, county Donegal, Dancing at Lughnasa follows the lives of the five Mundy sisters. The story of the play is told through the memories of Michael Evans, the illegitimate son of Christina Mundy and Gerry Evans, as he recalls the five women who raised him: his mother and four aunts. He is only seven in 1936, the year his elderly uncle, Father Jack, returns after serving for twenty-five years as a missionary in a 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.