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The Brightening Air - A New Play by Conor McPherson

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Booking from
Tuesday, 15 April 2025

Booking until
Friday, 13 June 2025


The Brightening Air

How much of living is really just forgetting?

The family home is more than merely a building. It can be a destination of pilgrimage, an inherited investment, a repository of memory or even magic.

And, for brother and sister Stephen (Brian Gleeson) and Billie (Rosie Sheehy), home is all they have. Mucking along in their decaying farmhouse, they’re doing just fine.

That is, until the arrival of an ex-clergyman uncle (Seán McGinley) with an unscrupulous plan, a sister-in-law (Hannah Morrish) seeking a miracle, and a prodigal brother hell-bent on trouble (Chris O’Dowd).

A world premiere from Olivier Award-winning writer and director Conor McPherson (The Weir, Girl from the North Country), The Brightening Air is an entrancing tale of fate, family and unseen forces in 1980s Ireland.

Winner of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award.

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Baylis Circle
It was impossible to hear what the actors were saying in the Baylis Circle. It ruined the whole production for us. I can't understand that tickets were sold for an area which had insufficient speakers or no speakers at all.
Bernadette, 14 May 2025
Challenging
Overall disappointing. The actors esp Freya need to learn to not mumble, and look at the audience. There is far too much moving around moving chairs etc consequently the actors are speaking away from the audience only enjoyable part was when they raised their voices to argue. All the women were not advised to speak up. The directorship was amateurish. Like a high school production. Seen before enjoyed then as actors projected their voices. Few laughs but overall lacking in connecting with each other. Appealing to a limited audience because of the accent. Ghastly music when wonderful Celtic Irish music would have set the tone. The old priest was the best actor thank god for his well played contribution
Linda, 13 May 2025


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