A Dylan-inspired gem returns to the stage
Daniel Bailey in Girl from the North Country
Manuel Harlan
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Girl from the North Country
OLD VIC THEATRE, LONDON
Having three productions opening in the same year is a rare feat, achievable only by hugely prolific (Sir Alan Ayckbourn) or classic back-list (Harold Pinter, Sir Tom Stoppard) dramatists.
Neither of these conditions applies to the 53-year-old Irish writer Conor McPherson – but 2025 is a ripe year for him. A new play, the Gaelic-Chekhovian The Brightening Air, ran at the Old Vic earlier this year (reviewed 6 June) and Brendan Gleeson leads a revival of McPherson’s 1997 masterpiece The Weir, a ghost story contest in a remote pub, that opens in Dublin in August and London from September.
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