THE WEIR by Conor McPherson directed by Warner Shook March 13 - April 3, 2011 Julianne Argyros Stage
Proclaimed as “exceptional …the most exciting evening in theatrical London!” by The Guardian, this Olivier Award winner was also a New York hit, running for eight months on Broadway. When a group of hard-drinking Irishmen get together in a local pub on a stormy night, their amazing yarns prove to be both funny and spine-tingling. Especially as they compete for the attention of a mysterious young woman. But she outdoes them, spinning her own haunting story of love and loss that keeps them—and the audience—simply spellbound.
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Playwright Bio
Irish playwright Conor McPherson is the author of such works as The Seafarer, Port Authority, Shining City, Come on Over and Dublin Carol. Not yet 40, both The London Telegraph and The New York Times have already described him as the finest playwright of his generation. Growing up in Dublin, McPherson dreamed of playing guitar in a band. But while studying English and philosophy at University College Dublin, he read David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross: “That was it," he told The Guardian. "I knew exactly what I was going to do." Today McPherson also writes screenplays and directs both plays and films. (His most recent film, Eclipse, stars Ciaran Hinds and Aidan Quinn and was released this spring.) Raised a strict Roman Catholic in Dublin, he abandoned his faith as a teenager but remains drawn to the supernatural and the unknown. As the Washington Post says, “Ghosts always seem to be hovering in the wings of his plays, and death is a lively preoccupation.”
