Dancing at Lughnasa Tickets

Reviews are coming in for the National Theatre's revival of Brian Friel's award-winning play Dancing at Lughnasa. Josie Rourke’s revival of Brian Friel’s Olivier Award-winning play runs in the National Theatre's Olivier Theatre until 27 May 2023. The cast includes Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls), Ardal O’Hanlon (Father Ted), Alison Oliver (Conversations with Friends) and Louisa Harland (Derry Girls) alongside Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Bláithín Mac Gabhann, Justine Mitchell and Tom Riley. [ngg src="galleries" ids="1124" display="basic_slideshow"] The play is set during harvest time in County Donegal, 1936, outside the village of Ballybeg. The five Mundy sisters battle poverty to raise seven-year-old Michael and care for their Uncle Jack, and during the Festival of Lughnasa, Pagan and Christian meet and collide. The sisters fight, love, dance, yearn and survive, in this astonishing evocation of a family’s world on the brink of change. The creative team also includes Set and costume design by Robert Jones, lighting designer is Mark Henderson, choreographer is Wayne McGregor, composer is Hannah Peel, sound designer is Emma Laxton and casting director is Alastair Coomer CDG. Read reviews from the London theatre critics, with more reviews to follow. Book tickets to Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre in London Photos by Johan Persson

The National Theatre in London has announced its 2023 programme which includes three new productions and a revival Anupama Chandrasekhar’s acclaimed play The Father and the Assassin. Jack Thorne's highly anticipated new play The Motive and the Cue runs in the Lyttelton theatre, previewing from 20 April 2023 with opening night on 2 May. Directed by Sam Mendes the play is a behind the scenes look at Richard Burton and John Gielgud's 1964 Broadway production of Hamlet. The play will star Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton, Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Tuppence Middleton as Elizabeth Taylor. Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls), Ardal O’Hanlon (Father Ted) and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Translations) will star in a revival of Brian Friel’s Olivier Award-winning play Dancing at Lughnasa, directed by Josie Rourke, who is currently directing As You Like It at the @sohoplace theatre. The play will open in the Olivier theatre in April 2023. A new play by Deborah Bruce, Dixon and Daughters, a powerful story of family and forgiveness, opens in the Dorfman theatre in April. It is directed by Róisín McBrinn. Indhu Rubasingham will direct Paul Bazely in Anupama Chandrasekhar’s acclaimed play The Father and the Assassin, which returns tot he Olivier theatre in September 2023. Previously announced shows for 2023 include: Phaedra (Lyttleton theatre, 1 Feb – 8 Apr); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Olivier theatre, 9 Feb – 25 Mar); Romeo and Julie (Dorfman theatre, 14 Feb – 1 Apr); and, Hamlet (Dorfman theatre, 20 Mar – 28 Mar). Outside of London will see Shut up, I'm Dreaming, a new production by The PappyShow visit 55 secondary schools across the country from January 2023; the critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane will begin its UK and Ireland tour in Salford this Christmas; and new dates have been added of the US tour of Emma Rice’s Wuthering Heights and the UK tour of Laura Wade’s Home, I’m Darling. The National's current Winter season includes: Othello (Lyttleton theatre, 23 Nov – 21 Jan); Hex (Olivier theatre, 26 Nov – 14 Jan); and, Kerry Jackson (Dorfman theatre, 30 Nov – 28 Jan). Book tickets to Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre in London