At age 26, Conor McPherson is one of the most compelling new writers to emerge from Ireland this decade. The first US publication of this Dublin based author collects all his dramatic work to date. The lead title, The Weir, has been an unqualified success in London, Dublin, and Toronto, and will premiere on Broadway in February 1999. Set in a pub in a Western Ireland county, The Weir creates a drama of interwoven stories as told by the locals and how they comfort and distract one another in the midst of desolation and grief. Spellbinder that transfixes you ... no praise is too high ... The...

Another chilling play by the author of Shining City and The Weir

"A neglected landmark of modern theatre that explores the byzantine complexities of marriage with the honesty of genius."--Guardian

Back in Dublin after nine years abroad, Richard and Bertha have to ask themselves questions about guilt and responsibility as they confront two other people who love them. Will infidelity hold them together? Based in part on James Joyce's own relationship with Nora Barnacle.

Present-day Dublin on Christmas Eve. John Plunkett is an undertaker. He is in his late fifties and a little worse for life. Like his Dickensian counterpart in A Christmas Carol, he finds that the season brings forth its ghosts.

Ian has left the priesthood to become a therapist. John is one of his first clients. John's wife has been killed in a car accident and he keeps seeing her ghost. As John recovers, with Ian's help, Ian himself is going under with troubles of his own.

Features four plays - three monologues and a three-hander.