Dancing At Lughnasa Character Analysis

Because “Dancing at Lughnasa” is such a female-driven play, Mahoney said that it alters the dynamics both onstage and off. (Her character, Agnes, knits gloves with sister Rose to help the family stay afloat.)

“Whenever a guy enters the room, it completely changes everything. I think we’ve all been able to feel that since the beginning,” she said. “It’s a really cool situation — our assistant director and our stage manager and all of our assistant stage managers are all women.

“There was one rehearsal when none of the boys were called, and it was 2⅓ hours or so of just girls in this room working. All of the sisters, we’ve gotten really close over the rehearsal process — it’s like I have real sisters. But when the boys showed up later in that