Auditions will be held in January for “Dancing at Lughnasa,” a play by Lynn Canal Community Players that director Tod Sebens hopes to stage by late February.

Set in County Donegal, Ireland in 1936, the play is a drama of a large, Catholic family coming to grips with its poverty and insecurity in a changing world at summer’s end. It became a 1998 film featuring Meryl Streep.

In an email this week, Sebens said he…