Complex sentence: Despite light moments the musical, like the play, is essentially a tragedy, chronicling the disintegration of an Irish family in Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Troubles between the Irish Republican Army and the British.
Split into simpler sentences: Despite light moments the musical, like the play, is essentially a tragedy. Ths story chronicles the disintegration of an Irish family in Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Troubles between the Irish Republican Army and the British.