"Dancing with eyes half closed because to open them would break the spell"

[icepixie]

Note to self--remember that anything literary and Irish = depressing.

Saw Dancing at Lughnasa today with Chandra at Exeter's theatre. Don't get me wrong, it was very, very good, but I was expecting it to be rather more uplifting than it was. Meep. But hey, it had both ballroom and Irish step dancing in it, so I was happy. ;)

And now I'm going to get actual work done. Yes.

Comments

[fiara.livejournal.com]

I've seen that movie. It was very sad.

[icepixie]

I need to see the movie. I enjoyed the friction between old cultural beliefs and Christianity (why yes, I am an English major) and of course the music and dancing, but damn. It was so depressing.

[montymark.livejournal.com]

The movie is very different from the play. The characters are sort of the same, but they changed the storyline a lot.

I like Dancing At Lughnasa, but I'm probably biased, because it was the first play I was involved in at University.

But where did they insert the ballroom dancing? The dance of Gerry and Christina or Gerry and Agnes?

[icepixie]

But where did they insert the ballroom dancing? The dance of Gerry and Christina or Gerry and Agnes?

Both, actually, although the majority of it was Gerry and Christina. They did a pretty complicated Foxtrot. Gerry and Agnes did a few Foxtrot steps along with some just swaying around.

[montymark.livejournal.com]

Cool.

The actor who played Gerry in our production couldn't dance to save his life, so the dance steps were simplified a bit. But still he managed to dance into a pillar that was cunningly hidden behind a curtain.

And what do you know, the following year he had to dance again. We've been trying to find plays for him to dance in ever since.