Meryl Streep | Dancing At Lughnasa, 1998

"I know I had a sense of unease, some awareness of a widening breach between what seemed to be and what was, of things changing too quickly." So begins Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa", with the story's narrator, Michael (Daniel Millhouse), introducing us to his eccentric family members and the home they all shared in the rural Irish town of Ballybeg in the summer of 1936.

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