Dancing at Lughnasa

Kevin Nguyen

Due 3/1/2010

MW 4:30-5:45

Dr. McIntyre

Dancing at Lughnasa

The play starts off with a guy that plays a little boy, Michael, talking about his summer with his aunts and mother. It’s in the summer of August, and the five sisters just got a new radio that kept shutting on and off. The play starts off with all of them folding clothes, and Rose talks about some guy that she’s in love with, but he had a wife, so the sisters did not approve of her getting involved with him. The sisters, Rose and Maggie, loved dancing and singing in the kitchen, and would stomp their feet fiercely on the kitchen wood floor. One of the sister mentions that they should go to the local Harvest Festival, which the other 3 sisters Maggie, Rose, and Chris get really excited about, but when they tell the oldest sister Kate, she shuts them down and tells them that they’re too old to be going to things like that. The radio that only works sometimes finally turns on and then Maggie and Rose begin to dance, and then Agnes and Chris join in, they get wild, and begin to throw flour and clothes all over the house. While the four of them are dancing with each other outside of the house, Kate is in the house dancing by herself, but once the radio shuts off, they all stop dancing and then go back to what they were doing. Soon they see their brother, Jack, come walking home, who was in Africa for a long time. He’s sick and can’t recognize most of the sisters and they put him to bed so that he can rest. Afterwards, Michael’s father, Gerry, comes over who Chris or any of the other sisters haven’t seen in over a year. Kate and Agnes disapprove of Gerry and Chris talking or spending time together, and Kate believes that Chris is going to tell him off and make him leave. They end up dancing and laughing with each other, and Gerry tells Chris all this exciting news about his job and how he’s going to the army, and then asks Chris to marry him. He also says that he was getting Michael a black...