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 Set in Ireland’s County Donegal in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg, this is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator. He recounts the summer in his aunts’ cottage
when he was seven years old during the late summer days when love briefly seems possible for three of the aunts and the family welcomes home the frail elder brother, who has returned from a life as missionary in Africa. The play takes place around the festival of Lughnasa, the festival of the first fruits, when the harvest is welcomed.
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