Brendan Gleeson makes his UK stage debut in a perfectly tuned tale
Brendan Gleeson as garage owner Jack
Rich Gilligan
Catholicism is right and centre
The Weir
HAROLD PINTER THEATRE, LONDON
A busy year for the Irish writer director Conor McPherson already includes a new play, The Brightening Air, and a revival of Girl from the North Country, his 2017 dramatisation of the Bob Dylan songbook (reviewed 26 July). But, enjoy able as those shows were, the likely gem was the completion of McPherson’s accidental 2025 trilogy: a West End production of his 1997 play The Weir, a much-revived modern classic, with Brendan Gleeson, right, a movie star (In Bruges, Calvary, The Banshees of Inisherin) making, aged 70, his British theatre debut (though after considerable Dublin stage experience).
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