The Veil

Play :: show/work:S1926924165, production/tour:T01905569694

Archive Listings

27 Sep 11 to 11 Dec 11

The Veil Play :: listing:L0689030124, production:T01905569694, show:S1926924165, venue: V374

Lyttelton (National Theatre) West End Greater London

Details

May 1822, rural Ireland. The defrocked Reverend Berkeley arrives at the crumbling former glory of Mount Prospect House to accompany seventeen-year-old Hannah to England. She is to be married off to a Marquis in order to resolve the debts of her mother’s estate. However, compelled by the strange voices that haunt his beautiful young charge and a fascination with the psychic current that pervades the house, Berkeley proposes a seance, the consequences of which are catastrophic. World Premiere. Set around a haunted house hemmed in by a restive, starving populace, Conor McPherson s new play weaves Ireland s troubled colonial history into a transfixing story about the search for love, the transcendental and the circularity of time. Running time: 2hrs 35mins
Performers Brid Brennan, Caoilfhionn Dunne, Ursula Jones, Peter McDonald, Jim Norton, Adrian Schiller, Emily Taaffe, Fenella Woolgar, Abigail Guiver, Claudia Hall, Felicity McHardy-Costaine Brown, Mary Mallen, Ursula Moham, Alan Mooney, Alice Parsloe, Geoffrey Towers. Author Conor McPherson. Producer National Theatre. Director Conor McPherson. Design Rae Smith. Lighting Neil Austin. Sound Paul Arditti.