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Dancing at Lughnasa
Faber and Faber 1990 cover
Written byBrian Friel
Date premiered24 April 1990
Place premieredAbbey Theatre
Dublin, Ireland
Original languageEnglish
SubjectA month in the lives of five impoverished women.
GenreDrama/Script/acting
SettingAugust 1936, County Donegal, Ireland

Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in County Donegal, Ireland in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator. He recounts the summer in his aunts' cottage when he was seven years old.

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