The Weir
Haunting tales with The Weir play tickets, starring Brendan Gleeson
Tall tales and unsettling truths linger at the Harold Pinter Theatre this year, as Brendan Gleeson stars in The Weir play. Conor McPherson’s Olivier Award-winning drama, set in a pub where stories are traded over drinks, is back in London for a strictly limited season – and it marks Academy Award nominee Gleeson’s (The Banshees of Inisherin) West End debut!
A storm rages outside a pub in Count Leitrim. Four men sit together, exchanging banter over their pints. It’s a normal evening, until a mysterious woman called Valerie arrives… and everything changes. As the men try to one-up each other in her affections with gripping, haunting tall tales about local superstitions and folktales, she gets ready to share her own story about why she left Dublin. It is profoundly personal, and it will leave them all shaken.
The Weir play established Conor McPherson as “one of the finest writers of his generation” (The New York Times) when it debuted at the Royal Court Theatre in 1997. This moving story of human connection and hope won the Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle and Olivier awards for Best New Play, and has been performed across the world – including on Broadway. It was last staged in London in 2013, at the Donmar Warehouse and Wyndham’s Theatre.
Brendan Gleeson stars as mechanic and garage owner Jack. Gleeson is an multi-award-winning Irish actor who has starred in In Bruges, The Banshees of Inisherin, Braveheart, Paddington II and Into the Storm. He also has a prolific theatre career, and has appeared in several plays in Dublin including The Plough and the Stars and The Walworth Farce. The Weir marks his West End debut, and one of the most exciting star castings for London theatre fans all year.
Further casting includes Owen McDonnell (Killing Eve) as Brendan, Seán McGinley (The Brightening Air) as Jim, Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders) as Valerie and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Dancing at Lughnasa) as Finbar.
In this new revival, McPherson directs his own play for the very first time. He is one of the most acclaimed modern Irish playwrights working today, with other work including Girl from the North Country, Port Authority and The Night Alive and an Olivier Award gong under his belt.
Superstition, ghost stories, and a heartbreaking tale that none of them were expecting… book tickets for The Weir play in the West End and enjoy Brendan Gleeson’s incredible talents live in this exciting revival.
Child friendly?
The age rating for The Weir play is to be confirmed.