Conor McPherson is having a pretty remarkable 2025: the playwright-director has no than four major productions this year, with his new play The Brightening Air and his Bob Dylan musical Girl from the North Country at the Old Vic, and potentially the biggest new London show of the year in the form of the imminent Hunger Games stage play. Between them for good measure here comes a revival of probably his most famous play The Weir, an ineffably haunting drama about a group of lonely souls telling ghost stories at a pub lock in in the depths of rural Ireland.
The mighty Brendan Gleeson will make his return to the London stage for the first time in decades to star as pub regular Jack, in a production that will be directed by McPherson himself (lest anyone accuse him of slacking).
