Casting Call for "Dancing at Lughnasa" Stage Play
Actors sought for play "Dancing at Lughnasa". ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. Please see the breakdown below. About the project: Set during the late summer harvest focused Festival of Lughnasa (LOO-na-SA) in 1936 just outside the fictional Irish town of Ballybeg, county Donegal, Dancing at Lughnasa follows the lives of the five Mundy sisters. The story of the play is told through the memories of Michael Evans, the illegitimate son of Christina Mundy and Gerry Evans, as he recalls the five women who raised him: his mother and four aunts. He is only seven in 1936, the year his elderly uncle, Father Jack, returns after serving for twenty-five years as a missionary in a Ugandan leper colony. For the young boy, two other disturbances occur that summer. The sisters acquire their first radio, whose music transforms them from correct Catholic women to shrieking, stomping banshees in their own kitchen. And 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. From these small events spring the cracks that destroy the foundation of the family forever. Additional info: This play is set in Ireland and the characters will all have Irish dialects. Please come to the audition prepared to give your Irish dialect a go. It does not need to be perfect, directors just want to know where you are and what you are comfortable with. Note: Actors of any gender identity are encouraged to audition for any role. Show dates: September 26, 27, 28 & October 3, 4, 5 Fri. & Sat. @730pm Sun. @2:00pm. If you are interested, please apply.
8 roles
Narrator (main character).
The the eldest of the Mundy sisters and behaves as a mother figure towards the others.
The chief family homemaker. She is revealed as serving a deeper purpose as the "joker" of the family, defusing tensions as they arise.
Quiet and contemplative Mundy sister.
Mundy sister who behaves much younger than her years.
Michael's mother, she is the youngest of the Mundy sisters.
Michel's father.
Missionary Priest.