Irish Rep’s Fine ’Dancing’ Taps Radio Days, Lost Youth: Review

The “wireless” takes center stage in Brian Friel’s “Dancing at Lughnasa,” the Tony Award-winning play set in the summer of 1936 that New York’s Irish Repertory Theatre is reviving in style.

Long before iPhones and BlackBerrys, the radio was the gadget beloved for its power to transport. Called the Marconi here, the radio provides the music for cathartic dancing by five lonely sisters, as language surrenders to movement.