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A haunting new drama from one of Ireland's most distinctive voices. 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 séance, the consequences of which are catastrophic. 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. A world premiere at the National Theatre in 2011.
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The finest dramatist of his generation. --Daily Telegraph
A cracking fireside tale of haunting and decay...The combination of narcotics, spiritualism, dementia, sin and suicide is intensified - and here it does feel modern - by a constant awareness that outside, villagers and their children are starving to death. --The Times
McPherson directs with an effective mixture of dark comedy and suspense. The first ghostly manifestation is a real dramatic coup, and a séance scene, conducted by the defrocked priest, is genuinely terrifying. Like some latterday Hamlet, McPherson is clearly convinced there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamt of in most playwrights' philosophy...An original and at times genuinely startling evening. --The Telegraph
A cracking fireside tale of haunting and decay...The combination of narcotics, spiritualism, dementia, sin and suicide is intensified - and here it does feel modern - by a constant awareness that outside, villagers and their children are starving to death. --The Times
McPherson directs with an effective mixture of dark comedy and suspense. The first ghostly manifestation is a real dramatic coup, and a séance scene, conducted by the defrocked priest, is genuinely terrifying. Like some latterday Hamlet, McPherson is clearly convinced there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamt of in most playwrights' philosophy...An original and at times genuinely startling evening. --The Telegraph
About the Author
Acclaimed by the Telegraph as 'the finest dramatist of his generation', Conor McPherson's plays include This Lime Tree Bower, The Weir (Olivier Award Best Play), Dublin Carol, Port Authority, Shining City and The Seafarer. His films include I Went Down, Saltwater and The Actors. All his plays and screenplays are published by NHB. In 2009 he adapted Daphne Du Maurier's short story The Birds for the Abbey Theatre Dublin. This will be published in a new collection, McPherson Plays: Three, in the spring of 2012.
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- PublisherNick Hern Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1848422024
- ISBN 13 9781848422025
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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