Upcoming Performances
Dancing at Lughnasa
Upcoming Events
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Summer Camp Counselor Applications - Due March 15th
Must be post marked March 15th
Many previous counselors and parents are asking if they need to create an essay. The answer is YES. One page is fine. Why do you want to be a counselor? What was your favorite part? ("Read More" for all the specifics).
EVERYONE that would like to be a counselor at our summer camps is required to submit an essay and a $50 application fee in order to be considered as a counselor.
Even if you have worked with us before.
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Friday, March 05, 2010
It’s time to sign up for Summer Theater Camp!
Interest Forms are now ready for our two popular summer theater camps!
Just email marketing @ thejusticetheaterproject.org for The Franciscan School camp,and we'll get the form to you by email. Go to http://www.EmilyK.org for the Emily K camp registration.
A $50 non-refundable deposit is required with the form.
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Productions
Dancing at Lughnasa
Dancing at Lughnasa
By Brian Friel
June 11 - 27, 2010
Cardinal Gibbons Performing Arts Center, Raleigh
Five unmarried sisters in a small Irish village hope and dream of a better life, while music from their radio transforms and transports them. This haunting play is a tribute to the spirit and valor of family.
Winner of 3 Tony Awards.
Five unmarried sisters eke out living in a small village in Ireland in l936.
During the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing, their spare existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of m…usic from the radio, their only link to the romance and hope of the world at large.
The play is told through the memory of the illegitimate son of one of the sisters as he remembers the five women who raised him, his mother and four maiden aunts.
He is only seven in 1936, the year his elderly uncle, a priest, returns after serving for twenty-five years as a missionary in a Ugandan leper colony.
The sisters acquire their first radio, whose music transforms them from correct Catholic women to shrieking, stomping banshees in their own kitchen. He meets his father for the first time, a charming Welsh drifter who strolls up the lane and sweeps his mother away in an elegant dance across the fields.
This haunting play is a tribute to the spirit and valor of family.
