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Weir, The

Weir, The

You are guaranteed a good laugh and warm welcome when you join the local lads in Brendan’s Bar county Leitrim. When a young woman arrives from Dublin, the fellas impress her with their local ghost stories but as the night draws in, Valerie will share a haunting tale of her own.

Winner of the Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle and Olivier Award for Best New Play, Conor McPherson's moving, elegiac tale is a masterpiece of modern theatre. Quietly compelling and strangely chilling, The Weir is the perfect story for a winter night. Read more …


The critical consensus

While each increasingly serious moment is upended by a series of deadly one-liners, it is McEvoy's understated stillness that resonates the most.

****(*)Neil Cooper, Coffee-Table Notes, 20/01/2016

In the role of Valerie, a superb Lucianne McEvoy glows with concentrated pain and beauty; Brian Gleeson, Gary Lydon, Darragh Kelly and Frank McCusker give supporting performances that are close to perfection, conjuring up every minute stress and strain of a decade of momentous change in Ireland.

****(*)Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 20/01/2016

Superbly judged performances and a clever, organic approach to staging make for an effectively spooky time in the Lyceum’s production of Conor McPherson’s The Weir.

****(*)Hugh Simpson, All Edinburgh Theatre, 20/01/2016

While storytelling and craic are at the core of this play, it is shaped as much by the silences; the space in between; the listening, all reminders that a story needs an ear and we all need to be heard.

****(*)Irene Brown, Edinburgh Guide, 20/01/2016

A dynamically staged and truthfully told production which finds the haunting reality in Conor McPherson's play.

****(*)Thom Dibdin, The Stage, 20/01/2016

Amanda Gaughan’s excellent revival highlights the loneliness of the characters gathered to tell tales in a rural pub.

****(*)Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 21/01/2016

There is more than enough in the performances to recommend this play to anyone.

****(*)Lucy Christopher, TVBomb, 21/01/2016

It's the chemistry between the cast and their security inside the dialogue that really makes the play work.

****(*)Simon Thompson, WhatsOnStage, 21/01/2016

The final feeling is of a surprisingly slight presentation of a story that could resonate more deeply when played with greater relish of the details.

***(*)(*)Gareth Davies, The Reviews Hub, 20/01/2016

Just as Francis O’Connor’s design, beautifully lit by Simon Wilkinson, hints at something otherworldly just beyond the everyday setting, so this ensemble achieves a sense of the numinous that lingers in the silence at the end of the play.

****(*)Allan Radcliffe, 21/01/2016

This is a strong production with which to begin the second half of the Lyceum’s mainly superb 50th-anniversary season.

Mark Brown, Scottish Stage, 21/01/2016

It's funny and poignant, a slice of life from the end of the 20th century that already feels like an AOL email from another time.

****(*)Anna Burnside, Daily Record, 26/01/2016


Features about Weir, The

Lyceum's spring season kicks off with modern Irish classic

Irene Brown, Edinburgh Guide, 08/01/2016

Amanda Gaughan and Lucianne McEvoy--The Weir

Neil Cooper, Coffee-Table Notes, 12/01/2016

The Weir, a spectral play set in a pub that goes down easy.

Susan Mansfield, The Scotsman, 16/01/2016

Where and when?

Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh from Friday January 15, 2016, until Saturday February 6, 2016. More info: www.lyceum.org.uk

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