This extraordinary play, widely regarded as Friel’s masterpiece, is the study of five unmarried sisters, named for Friel’s mother and sisters, (“those five brave, Glenties women”) who live in a modest cottage in Donegal. On the threshold of the autumn of 1936, the household revolves around the eight year old love-child, Michael, and the Mundy brother priest, Uncle Jack, recently returned from 25 years in a leper colony in Uganda. Ancient tribal customs and Christian beliefs clash as the autumnal fires celebrating the Harvest God, Lugh, bathe the high grass in golden light and distant music on the radio floats across the fields.
The sisters, with unfailing courage and sweet forgiveness dance in a wild, final celebration of their way of life before it changes forever.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Maine State Music Theatre (6/5 - 6/22)
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Proof
Schoolhouse Arts Center (6/21 - 6/29) | ||
MAINE GAY MEN’S CHORUS PRESENTS BROADWAY GALA
City Theater (6/7 - 6/7) | ||
Birthday Candles
Penobscot Theatre Company (9/19 - 10/6) | ||
On Golden Pond
Deertrees Theatre (6/28 - 6/30) | ||
Opera Maine: Aida
Merrill Auditorium (7/25 - 7/28) | ||
CURBSIDE QUEENS PRESENT A LIVE DRAG SPECTACULAR
City Theater (6/1 - 6/1) | ||
MY WITCH: The Margaret Hamilton Stories
Boothbay Summer Theater (6/28 - 6/30) | ||
Dial M For Murder
Penobscot Theatre Company (1/30 - 2/23) | ||
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