Dancing At Lughnasa
March 21 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cost: 20.00-25.00
Event Website/Tickets
“The most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie.” – TIME Magazine
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 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. Widely regarded as Brian Friel’s masterpiece, this haunting play is Friel’s tribute to the spirit and valor of the past. The play won the 1992 Tony Award® for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway Play, and was chosen by TIME Magazine as one of the ten best plays for 1991. DANCING AT LUGHNASA was selected as part of Korda’s second public call for production proposals and will be directed by Dean Valentino, who most recently directed 2025’s Murder on the Orient Express at Korda.
Dates:
March, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27 & 28, 2026
Times:
8:00 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
2:00 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.
Tickets:
$25 (General Admission)
$20 (Students and Seniors)
Thursday, March 19, 2026, is Pay-What-You-Can
Box Office:
1. Order online at ShowPass
2. Purchase at the door, a half hour before showtime.
Cash and debit only.
Written by Brian Friel
Directed by Dean Valentino Produced by Joey Wright Assistant Direction Alex Hagen Assistant Director & Stage Manager Narvin Fazlaliserkani
Technical Team Lead Noah Ball and Owl Foster Assistant Stage Manager Jess Foster Staging & Costuming Karen Kilbride and the Cast
Dance Instructor Kerry Ann Doherty Choreographer Georgie Savoie Intimacy Coordinator Rebecca Lashmar
Set Design Dean Valentino Set Build Eric Tulp, Jay Stapleton, Joey Wright, Narvin Fazlaliserkani, Jess Foster, Dean Valentino
Set Painting Narvin Fazlaliserkani, Sarina Alizedeh, Noah Ball, Dean Valentino, Dayan Mohammadzadeh
Set Decoration Cast and Creative Team Lighting Design Noah Ball Sound Design Narvin Fazlaliserkani, Dean Valentino Lighting Operator Jess Foster
Poster Art, Website, and Promos / Socials by Christopher Lawrence Menard Socials Support / Instagram Hope Forman
Additional Marketing Support Abbey Lee Hallett
Inquiries?
Email [email protected]
Organized by
THE KORDAZONE THEATRE
2520 Seminole Street
Windsor,
Ontario
ON N8Y 1X4
Canada
Phone: (519) 562-3394