IRISH PLAY “DANCING ATLUGHNASA” BrianFriel’s play “Dancing at Lughnasa” closes this weekend at Broadview Heights Spotlights Theater. Remaining shows are Friday, March 22nd and Saturday, March 23rd. Curtain is at 7:30PM both nights. All performances are held at the Broadview Heights Cultural Arts Building, 9543 Broadview Road in Broadview Heights (next to the police station). Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for seniors and students. Tickets may be purchased on-line at www.broadview-heights-spotlights.org. The box office will be open ½ hour prior to every show for in-person ticket sales. Note: The theater has space for one wheel chair and the entire first row is on the ground (other rows have 1-4 steps). This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out theirlives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. We meet them at the time of thefestival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest withdrunken revelry and dancing. Their spare existence is interrupted by brief,colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to the romance andhope of the world at large. The action of the play is told through the memoryof the illegitimate son of one of the sisters as he remembers the five womenwho raised him: his mother and four maiden aunts. He is only seven in 1936, theyear his elderly uncle, a priest, returns after serving for twenty-five yearsas a missionary in a Ugandan leper colony. For the young boy, two other disturbancesoccur that summer. The sisters acquire their first radio, whose musictransforms them from correct Catholic women to shrieking, stomping banshees intheir own kitchen. And he meets his father for the first time, a charming Welshdrifter who strolls up the lane and sweeps his mother away in an elegant danceacross the fields. From these small events spring the cracks that destroy thefoundation of the family forever. The Spotlights’ production is directed by Rose Leininger, and features a castincluding Elizabeth Allard, Tara Corkery, Molly Cornwell, Khaki Hermann, DanHunsicker, Kayleigh Joyce, Andrew Keller, and Bob McCoy. Other production staffmembers include, Clorise Busch (Stage Manager), Karen Johnston (Costumer), TimAnderson (Technical Director & Set Designer), Adam Bowers and StephanieMalfara (Co-Producers). “Dancing at Lughnasa” is presented in a special arrangement with theDramatists Play Service.