Summer of ’36
Another Opening
of Another Show
“When I cast my mind back to that summer of 1936 different kinds of memories offer themselves to me. We got our first wireless set that summer– well, a sort of a set; and it obsessed us. And because it arrived as August was about to begin, my Aunt Maggie– she was the joker of the family– she suggested we give it a name. She wanted to call it Lugh after the old Celtic God of the Harvest. Because in the old days August the First was La Lughnasa, the feast day of the pagan god, Lugh; and the days and weeks of harvesting that followed were called the Festival of Lughnasa.”
— Michael in the play
“Dancing at Lughnasa”
“Dancing at Lughnasa”
From the film “Contact”–
Jodie Foster and the
opening of the 1936 Olympics
| “Heraclitus…. says: ‘The ruler whose prophecy occurs at Delphi oute legei oute kryptei, neither gathers nor hides, alla semainei, but gives hints.'” — An Introduction to Metaphysics, by Martin Heidegger, Yale University Press paperback, 1959, p. 170 |