The Veil (NHB Modern Plays) - Brossura

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

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.