DANCING AT LUGHNASA

Directed by Thomas Ouellette
Rollins College

“As directed by Thomas Ouellette, the Rollins production makes a lovely thing of the last jubilant dance of their dying way of life. All its elements, Dale Amlund’s homey set, Mary Amlund’s workaday costumes, the performers’ consistent and credible Irish accent, show Rollins at its best. Yet the warmth that emanates from the production comes not from those physical elements but from the way Rollins’ performers make a family, one with the tangible idiosyncrasies of every family on earth… Capturing an era is for more earth-bound plays and more stolid productions. What the Annie Russell Theatre captures in Dancing at Lughnasa is the blink of an eye.” – Orlando Sentinel