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Playwright Kirsten Greenidge weaves family history into ‘Luck of the Irish’

By Laura Collins-Hughes

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 30, 2012

The details of Medford playwright Kirsten Greenidge’s “The Luck of the Irish’’ are artistic inventions, but Greenidge’s inspiration was her own family history: the stratagem her grandparents, Ariel and Samuel Dance, used as a black couple to buy a house in overwhelmingly white Arlington in 1967. The drama has its world-premiere production March 30-April 29 at the Huntington Theatre Company.

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