Kirsten Greenidge, a local playwright, turns to her family’s past for a world premiere at the Huntington Theatre
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 Compa…