dancing at lughnasa

How, as a director, would you present the role of Michael in Friel's 'Dancing At Lughnasa'? What theatrical impact would you hope to achieve for the audience? AS with every character, a director must analyse and interpret Michael as they see him and then try to get this across to the audience without making him stand up stage and give them a profile of his and his aunts lives. As a director, I think that …

…as Michael would have as a child. This way I am using the older Michael to convey what the younger Michael would be feeling through my eyes. It would also be important that the actresses never look at the older Michael - he is invisible to them as these are his memories. I would have to set eyelines for them so they all know how tall the younger Michael was standing up and sitting down.