AUDITIONS for KORDA'S 2026 SEASON Production of
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
Written by Brian Friel
Directed by Dean Valentino
AUDITION DATES & TIME
-Tuesday, November 4, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. (end time of approximately 9:00 p.m.).
-Wednesday, November 5, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. (end time of approximately 9:00 p.m.).
AUDITION LOCATION
The Kordazone Theatre, 2520 Seminole Street
Windsor, ON. N8Y 1X4, 226-674-1002
NOTE: Auditions will take place DOWNSTAIRS at the Malta Club.
BOOKING YOUR AUDITION
-Please book your audition via email to
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WHAT TO PREPARE & EXPECT
-Sides from the script will be provided at the audition.
-Auditioners will be paired for readings at the audition.
-All roles are available and listed below.
SHOW SYNOPSIS AND OUR PRODUCTION
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 an 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 no way a play to be missed—simply a wondrous experience. Experience it.” – New York Post.
AVAILABLE ROLES
-Michael Mundy: The narrator, an adult man looking back on his childhood memories of the summer of 1936 when he was seven.
-Kate Mundy (40-45): The oldest sister, a schoolteacher and the most disciplined member of the family, who tries to maintain order and tradition.
-Maggie Mundy(34-38): Known for her lighthearted and humorous nature, she helps with the household chores and keeps the family entertained.
-Agnes Mundy (32-35): Works as a knitter and is often seen alongside her sister Rose.
-Rose Mundy (28-32): Also a knitter, Rose is a more vulnerable and sheltered member of the family, often needing care from her sisters.
-Christina (Chris) Mundy (24-28): Michael's unmarried mother and the youngest of the sisters.
-Father Jack Mundy (50-65): The sisters' brother, a missionary priest who has recently returned from Africa and is struggling with his faith and cultural identity.
-Gerry Evans (mid 30’s): Michael's father, a charming but unreliable man who appears and disappears from their lives.
Korda encourages actors of all gender identities and expressions, racial and ethnic backgrounds, and physical abilities to audition. Korda Artistic Productions is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in the casting.
PERFORMANCE DATES & TIMES
March 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27 & 28, 2026, at 8:00 p.m.
March 15, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
REHEARSAL DATES & TIMES
-2 to 3 rehearsals per week.
-Days to be determined..
-Tech Week March 8 to 12, 2026, with rehearsal each night that week leading up to Opening Night.
THINK YOU NEED MORE INFORMATION, OR HAVE A QUESTION?
Contact Dean or Joey through
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WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU SOON!!!
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