Review: Dancing at Lughnasa - Everyman, Cork: 'The cast brings out the deep poignancy at play here'

4/5

Beneath the mundane surface of Brian Friel’s well-crafted play about the five single Mundy sisters lies a tragedy waiting to happen. With assured direction by the Everyman’s Julie Kelleher, the cast brings out the deep poignancy at play here.

It’s made all the more acute by the narrator, Michael, the grown up illegitimate son of Christina Mundy. Played with pitch perfect voice projection by Jack Healy, Michael is looking back on the summer of 1936 when the world of his mother and his aunts fell apart. He was a young boy then, an unseen character in the play.