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Dancing at Lughnasa

SHOW DATES

-Friday, March 13, 2026 @ 8:00 p.m. Opening Night
-Saturday, March 14, 2026 @ 8:00 p.m.

-Sunday, March 15, 2026 @ 2:00 p.m. Matinee

-Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 8:00 p.m. Pay-What-You-Can Night

-Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 8:00 p.m.

-Saturday, March 21, 2026 @ 8:00 p.m.

-Thursday, March 26, 2026 @ 8:00 p.m. Scent-Free Night

-Friday, March 27, 2026 @ 8:00 p.m.

-Saturday, March 28, 2026 @ 8:00 p.m. Closing Night

PERFORMANCES AT

The KordaZone Theatre, 2520 Seminole Street, Windsor, Ontario

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$25 General Admission
$20 Student and Senior
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Creative Team

Written by Brian Friel

Directed by Dean Valentino

Produced by Joey Wright

Assistant Direction Alex Hagen

Assistant Director & Stage Manager Narvin Fazlaliserkani

Technical Team Lead Noah Ball and Owl Foster

Assistant Stage Manager Jess Foster

Staging & Costuming Karen Kilbride and the Cast

Dance Instructor Kerry Ann Doherty

Choreographer Georgie Savoie

Intimacy Coordinator Rebecca Lashmar

Set Design Dean Valentino

Set Build Eric Tulp, Jay Stapleton, Joey Wright, Narvin Fazlaliserkani, Jess Foster, Dean Valentino

Set Painting Narvin Fazlaliserkani, Sarina Alizedeh, Noah Ball, Dean Valentino, Dayan Mohammadzadeh

Set Decoration Cast and Creative Team

Lighting Design Noah Ball

Sound Design Narvin Fazlaliserkani, Dean Valentino

Lighting Operator Jess Foster

Poster Art, Website, and Promos / Socials by Christopher Lawrence Menard
Socials Support / Instagram Hope Forman
Additional Marketing Support Abbey Lee Hallett

Synopsis

This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. Their spare existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to the romance and hope of the world at large. The action of the play is told through the memory of the illegitimate son of one of the sisters as he remembers the five women who raised him: his mother and four maiden aunts. He is only seven in 1936, the year his elderly uncle, a priest, 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. Widely regarded as Brian Friel's masterpiece, this haunting play is Friel's tribute to the spirit and valor of the past. The play won the 1992 Tony Award® for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway Play, and was chosen by TIME Magazine as one of the ten best plays for 1991. DANCING AT LUGHNASA was selected as part of Korda’s second public call for production proposals and will be directed by Dean Valentino, who most recently directed 2025’s Murder on the Orient Express at Korda.

“The most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie.” – TIME Magazine

“…this play does exactly what theater was born to do, carrying both its characters and audience aloft on those waves of distant music and ecstatic release that, in defiance of all language and logic, let us dance and dream just before night must fall.” – The New York Times

“This is in no way a play to be missed—simply a wondrous experience. Experience it.” – New York Post.

Director's Note

I was drawn to Dancing at Lughnasa for its extraordinary rhythm—the way Friel's script breathes and pulses, moving between memory and moment, between what is said and what remains unspoken. There's a musicality to the language that mirrors the heartbeat of the Mundy household itself. I first encountered this play at the University of Windsor’s UP performance some years ago, and it sat in the back of my mind as an intriguing possible show to direct. At its core, this is a play about family — about the bonds that sustain us and the silences that define us. The five sisters exist in a delicate balance of love, resentment, duty, and dreams deferred. I'm fascinated by how they orbit each other, how they clash and harmonize, how they hold each other up even as they hold each other back. But what truly captivates me is the play's embrace of both joy and sadness in a single breath. The famous dance scene isn't just a moment of release — it's tinged with desperation, with the knowledge that such freedom is fleeting. Friel doesn't ask us to choose between laughter and heartbreak; he insists we feel them simultaneously. I hope you will agree that this amazing cast does justice to these concepts and brings to stark reality the duality, honesty, and complexity of life.

- Dean Valentino

Dean is extremely grateful to be back directing at The KordaZone Theatre. Dean recently played the role of Actor in Korda's production of The Woman in Black. In 2025 Dean won Outstanding Director for Halfway There and shared seven other awards with the cast and crew at the Bank Theatre, where he also played Sean, the Toronto doctor. His other repertoire includes Egeus in Korda's production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the titular character in Dracula, and directing and playing the Duke in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona. He also played McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — all at the Bank Theatre in Leamington. Other recent productions include Friar Lawrence in Korda's production of Romeo and Juliet and Scott in Post Productions/AWE's debut of Traffic. As a director, Dean helmed the 2025 sold-out run of Murder on the Orient Express at Korda. Dean wishes to thank his two theatre mentors for their inspiration, the amazing cast and crew, and of course his family — wife and dogs — for their unwavering support throughout this production.

The Cast

Marnie Renaud-Gare as Kate Mundy

Marnie is happy to be back on stage with Korda. She was last on the KordaZone stage as Chicklet in the 2024 production of Psycho Beach Party. Prior to that she played Ginny in Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche. Marnie was most recently seen in the Bank Theatre’s production of Halfway There, where she was awarded a Best Supporting Actor award at the WODL festival for her portrayal of Mary Ellen. Marnie would like to thank her mother, and her two girls Willow and Poppy for all their love and support. A special thank you to her fishy for bringing back her spark .

Avery McMillan Thomas as Agnes Mundy

Avery is a Canadian Actor from Windsor, Ontario. She has a strong passion and love for the art of storytelling and has just completed her BFA in Acting at the University of Windsor. She has had the pleasure of portraying the roles of Celia in As You Like It, Margaret, Alice, and Vlad in The Wedding Party, Hecuba in The Trojan Women and Marmee in Little Women. She is also honoured to have been given the opportunity to share her own writing, directing, and acting with her piece "Step by Step."

"Thank you to all my friends and family for their everlasting love and support."

Georgie Savoie as Chris Mundy

Georgie Savoie is excited to be performing in her 12th production with Korda Artistic Productions. You may have seen her before in Korda’s recent productions of The Rocky Horror Show, Psycho Beach Party, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Trench, The Three Musketeers, Frankenstein, Urinetown, The Music School Bus Discovers Sex, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Woman in Black, or Tartuffe. You may have also seen her in some of University Players final shows: Tinker Bell, Twelfth Night, or If We Were Birds. She would like to thank everyone at Korda for giving her yet another opportunity to do what she loves most. She would also like to thank the cast and crew for always making rehearsal joyful and fun!

Brandon Chappus as Gerry Evans

Brandon Chappus is so grateful to back on the Korda stage for 2026. His previous roles include Paul Sheldon in Misery, Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lt. Jack Ross in A Few Good Men, and Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express. He would like to thank his friends, family, and loved ones for supporting him through all the ups and downs. He is so excited to be a part of this amazing, star-studded cast of some of the best performers in Windsor..

Joey Wright as Jack Mundy

Joey is thrilled to be back on the Korda stage after some time away. Last seen on stage in The Trench in 2024 (#gettrenched) and directing The Three Musketeers in 2024. He is celebrating his 15th season with Korda, and hopes you enjoy what we have in store. Thanks to the cast and crew for all of their hard work and effort in making the show a success. Thanks to Dean for his trust in bringing his vision to life. Thank you and love to Mitch for putting up with all my actor nonsense. For David, the hour is late...

Rebecca Lashmar as Maggie Mundy

Rebecca is an actor, writer, intimacy director and coordinator who is so excited to be back at Korda! She graduated from the University of Windsor’s B.F.A program, and holds a graduate diploma in Arts Administration and Leadership from Queen’s University and her MA from the University of Toronto. Previous selected roles include: Hermione - Winter's Tale (Sunbeam Collective), Trish - Daring Debut, a new Canadian Work (Antic Theatre), and Mollie - Mousetrap (Bank Theatre). Much love to this amazing cast and crew! x

Kory Pineau as Michael Mundy (Elder)

Kory is a Canadian born actor from Windsor Ontario. After years of travelling, music performances, working countless dead end jobs, and co-founding "Grimehouse" (Windsor's punk music based college house turned venue, closed 2020), Kory is returning to stage acting for the first time in 11 years. This is his first show with Korda, and he is excited to finally return to thespianism after a very long break, as "Michael Evans". Kory would like to thank the director, the crew, and fellow cast members for being a wonderful team to work with.

Larissa Dawn as Rose Mundy

Larissa is a Canadian actor and artist born and raised in Windsor, Ontario, who graduated from the University of Windsor’s BFA Acting program. Larissa has a love of storytelling and pushing imagination as far as it will go to provide excitement and entertainment to audiences. They’ve had the chance to perform in Korda’s The Woman in Black as Kipps, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Jekyll, The Wedding Party as Edna, Frank, and Murray, and in Macbeth as Witch 3 and others. Larissa is excited to be back at Korda to show audiences Dancing at Lughnasa, and thank their loved ones for their everlasting support.

Thomas David Preney as Michael Mundy (Younger)

Thomas is a young actor that aspires to be great one day. He is currently portraying Michael Evans/Michael Mundy in Dancing at Lughnasa. Recently, Thomas traveled to Mexico to perform as a butterfly in Tracey and James Atin’s opera Flutter. Other credits include William Frankenstein in Frankenstein and Mortimer in the Munschables Musical at KordaZone Theatre here in Windsor, Ontario. He is 11 years of age and likes soccer and of course, acting. Thomas would like to thank his director who helps him with his acting struggles and his nice and welcoming cast..

Show Sponsors & Supporters

GENEROUS SUPPORT FOR KORDA ARTISTIC PRODUCTIONS PROVIDED BY

DENISE AND PETER HRASTOVEC

Special Thanks To...

Riverfront Theatre Company, Live Production Group, Bloomsbury House