A VERY special production of Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa continues at St Columba’s Comprehensive School in Glenties.

The first show in the series opened on Saturday night last with members of the Friel family in attendance. The production received a hugely positive response.

Come and visit Glenties by the Bluestacks and see site-specific theatre come to life at its rawest and most realistic for one of Ireland’s most famous and familiar plays.

You will sit within a grand visual setting akin to an art installation and when seated you will be the walls of The Laurels house listening in on the five Mundy sisters.

You will experience the sisters’ sacral pagan dance in Act 1 with as much surprise and delight as 35 years ago on the play’s opening night at The Abbey, Dublin. This is Dancing at Lughnasa as never before, performed in the traverse and premiering the play’s first multi-cultural cast in Ireland.

Witness a recalling of the lives of 1930s rural Irish women in the terroir of its original setting, only 50m away from The Laurels homestead.

The Marconi radio of Dancing at Lughnasa will burst into life bringing the outer world to Glenties through a newly commissioned electro-acoustic sound score by of the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) composer John D’Arcy (DJ Marconi). Watch Act 1 in blazing brightness and Act 2 in a ghostly altered setting as daylight fades.

The Dancing at Lughnasa show dates are as follows: Friday, August 8 to Sunday, August 10, and Tuesday, August 12 to Sunday, August 17 at 7.30pm.

There are also earlier shows on Saturday, August 9 and Saturday, August 16 at 2.30pm.