The Veil

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T01905569694 (LYTTELTON11) 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 35minsProducer National Theatre. Director Conor McPherson. Design Rae Smith. Lighting Neil Austin. Sound Paul Arditti. Performer Brid Brennan. Performer Caoilfhionn Dunne. Performer Ursula Jones. Performer Peter McDonald. Performer Jim Norton. Performer Adrian Schiller. Performer Emily Taaffe. Performer Fenella Woolgar. Performer Abigail Guiver. Performer Claudia Hall. Performer Felicity McHardy-Costaine Brown. Performer Mary Mallen. Performer Ursula Moham. Performer Alan Mooney. Performer Alice Parsloe. Performer Geoffrey Towers.

27 Sep 11 to 11 Dec 11

Lyttelton (National Theatre), West End :: V374 listing details L0689030124

Details

Play :: 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.

Author

Conor McPherson