Dancing at Lughnasa London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (19)
See it if you like a good tale.This might hit too close to home, but it does make you think.Families are hard, but are worth it!Very well acted.
Don't see it if you only want light entertainment.This show will stay with you and make you think.Acting, set and directing are excellent.Terrific script.
See it if you like a proprer drama with a good story that you'll be thinking about long after you leave the theatre.
Don't see it if you want something light and fluffy, like a mindless comedy or a musical. Read more
See it if you want to see the BEST OF IRISH THEATRE!!!!!
Don't see it if you can't understand the Donegal accent!
See it if you want to see a classic National Theatre production: beautifully staged, thoughtfully acted, funny in places, touching in others.
Don't see it if you’re don’t like slow burning plays- a lot happens in this show and a lot changes, but it doesn’t always feel like it.
See it if A big epic staging with some great performances
Don't see it if Quite a dated play and takes a long while to build
See it if you enjoy gorgeously acted memory plays and lush sets
Don't see it if you loathe long, empty scenes
See it if Touching drama of women’s lives in mid twentieth century rural Ireland. Some touching performances.
Don't see it if Long slow claustrophobic domestic drama with little happening on stage and a lot of talk Read more
See it if you like emotional plays that bring you back to the happiest childhood days. also, if you’d like to see some extremely talented actresses
Don't see it if you don’t like the plays that are too long Read more
Critic Reviews (11)
"Even if you missed all the subtext, this show would still delight in its acute depiction of family dynamics...This play won Friel the Evening Standard Award for best play in 1991, and it still looks richly deserved."
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"The crux of ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’ is that it’s a sort of happy tragedy...It’s not bliss, but it is community, safety, sisterhood warmth, and dancing. A beautiful production of a beautiful play."
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"Movement lies at the emotional heart of this play and it is orchestrated with such delicate mastery by Wayne McGregor that the stomping scene, featuring the sisters dancing with wild abandon is a shared hedonistic escape, rebellious ritual and act of worship in one."
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"The scale of the Olivier – transformed into a bucolic paradise that seems to stretch as far as Tipperary – can work against the work’s subtlety and nuance, audibility an occasional issue."
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"The poetry seldom takes flight. Mark Henderson’s subtle lighting lends depth, though, to a production that gives the past a shimmering golden halo."
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"The judgement of each performance makes this portrait of a family deeply affecting, but every aspect of the production honours a play that feels as fresh as the day it was written."
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“This production may throw different aspects of the play into bold relief...but the play's sense of ectasy dampened down by circumstance, and worse, allows its putative intimacy to fill the reaches of the Olivier”
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" As enchanting as this setting is, it’s also ruled by pitiless patriarchal Catholicism. "
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