What’s on Thursday: Dancing at Lughnasa, Scavanger and Rhythm Method

ELECTRONICA

Scavenger

The Wiley Fox Dublin 8pm €10/€8

Scavanger bring two leading-edge electronic names to the venue on Dublin's north quays formerly known as The Pint. Samia Mirza and Justin Swinburne are 18+, the American duo behind the minimalist, atmoshospheric, woozy, low-slung r'n'b sound designs of the Trust album for the Houndstooth label. They're joined tonight by Leeds' producer Bambooman who has enjoyed a lot of attention on the back of his idiosyncratic work for Sonic Touter and live shows alongside Jon Hopkins , MF Doom, The Gaslamp Killer and Venetian Snares.

THEATRE

Dancing at Lughnasa

Lyric Theatre. Previews Aug 26 7.45pm £13 Opens Aug 27-Sep 27 7.45pm £15-£26.50 (Sat & Sun mat 2.30pm) (Thurs mat 1pm Sep 3,10,17 & 24 £13) lyrictheatre.co.uk

“When I cast my mind back to that summer of 1936 different kinds of memories offer themselves to me,” begins Michael, the adult narrator of Brian Friel’s celebrated memory play, as he summons a time of transformation. When we cast our minds back to that 1990 drama, different kinds of memories also make themselves available: five unmarried sisters sharing a cottage in rural Ballybeg, the fresh arrival of a Marconi radio, the return of the boy’s errant father and a doddery Uncle Jack, the missionary priest who went native. But everybody remembers the dancing, “as if language no longer existed”, which accompanies the harvest ritual of Lughnasa and expresses a female energy otherwise repressed by 1930s Irish Catholicism. Never a simple exercise in nostalgia - itself a source of pain - Friel’s play is a personal and powerful act of remembering, now directed now by Annabelle Comyn in a 25th anniversary production at the Lyric.

JAZZ

Rhythm Method

JJ Smyths, Aungier St 9pm €10 jjsmyths.com

Bassist Cormac O'Brien and guitarist Shane Latimer are two of the Dublin jazz scene's most dynamic forces – on and off the stage – and their Rhythm Method group (above), with keyboardist Daragh O'Kelly, trumpeter Bill Blackmore and drummer Shane O'Donovan, doesn't perform half as often as it should. Pick up a copy of By the Bye, their excellent album with elements of late 1960s Miles Davis, odd meter grooves and free improv.