Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa
Subtitle: Screenplay
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: November 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9780571196067
Subjects: Film & television screenplays; Films, cinema; Friel, Brian - Plays & Criticism; Screenplays Of Specific Films; Performing Arts; Dutch; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - Screenwriting; Film adaptations; Friel, Brian
Description: "It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal, where the living is anything but easy. The five Mundy sisters and seven-year-old Michael, the child of the youngest sister, form a tightly knit and proud family community just outside the village of Ballybeg. When their gentle brother Jack, a missionary priest in Africa, returns after twenty five years, it is clear that all is not well. And then Gerry, Michael's itinerant father, arrives after a two-year absence. Loved by one sister and coveted by another, Gerry's presence unsettles the family."--BOOK JACKET. "Frank McGuinness's screenplay of Brian Friel's play evokes the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic environment and offers a commentary on the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and Pagan, to which they are intrinsically related."--Jacket.