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DANCING AT LUGHNASA AT THEATER WEST
By Sheelagh O'Connor
01/29/2007
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DANCING AT LUGHNASA by Brian Friel at Theater West
Last night was the opening night of this fascinating play at Theater West in West Universal City. The director, John Gallogly, writes in the program notes: “Thank you for taking the passage back across the sea to examine the place we all left to arrive where we are, and in looking into our past, perhaps recognize a bit of what we remain”.
With many thanks to the performance of Walter Beery as Jack Mundy, I felt challenged to the true depth of this play. Here was the brother of these five Irish sisters who left Ballybeg, to go live in Africa for many years. He spoke Swahili the whole time he was there, he learned and lived the customs of the African people, and experienced the full joys of a less repressed culture. He reminisces about the ceremonies, he forgets English words but relives the experiences. He talks of his trusted manservant he left behind, who enjoyed dressing up in his clothes, amongst many other duties performed!
However, his sisters are living in the memory and glory of his role as a priest and how important that is to their status in this small cold damp Irish town in 1936. They want him to say mass, to return to their way of life, but he has gone past those beliefs. They think he is dementing, he is not in tune with their small town existence.
The radio in the house is such a strong source of life and energy that they give it a name, “The Marconi”. This unreliable box brings music and joy to the house. The sisters dance to the music, a grim life is left behind, but there is danger for repressed religious souls in this joy. It can lead to sex, ecstasy, and even abandonment, as we hear of the events of Lughnasa. Where do the people of Ireland find joy in this grim poverty stricken land of beauty and sorrow? Not in the church, but rather at a pagan festival, the festival of Lughnasa.
Mary Garripoli played the role of Maggie Mundy, full of “devilment”, fun, laughter, telling jokes and riddles and teasing her young “out of wedlock” nephew. Her presence onstage was electric, every gesture or look conveyed more than words can tell. There is a fountain of pure joy bursting out of this character, despite her disappointments in life.
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