{"product_id":"9780571385379","title":"Dancing at Lughnasa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA profound, luminous masterpiece by one of Ireland''s greatest playwrights.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis edition was published in 2023 with a beautifully redesigned text and cover, to coincide with the National Theatre'' revival. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five adult Mundy sisters; their older brother, a missionary priest returned from Uganda; and the youngest sister’s seven-year-old son, Michael. Over the course of two days in the family’s life, Brian Friel evokes not only the interior world of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape – public and private, Christian and pagan – of which they are nonetheless a part.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘There is no doubting we are in the thrall of as masterly a dramatist as the theatre possesses.’ \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43173476597938,"sku":"9780571385379","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571385379_7472cb11-83a5-4cf1-8351-6397a5bdbbde.jpg?v=1786014534","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780571385379","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}