Dancing at Lughnasa

Dancing at Lughnasa
Faber and Faber 1990 cover
Written by	Brian Friel
Date premiered	24 April 1990
Place premiered	Abbey Theatre Dublin, Ireland
Original language	English
Subject	A month in the lives of five impoverished women.
Genre	Drama/Script/acting
Setting	August 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.