Conor McPherson

The Seafarer, by Conor McPherson Merrimack Repertory Theatre Directed by Charles Towers October 15 – November 8 132 Warrren St. Lowell, MA 01852 The Seafarer, by Conor McPherson, opens in a dingy row-house basement, outside of Dublin, where we meet two brothers, Rich (Gordon Joseph Weiss) and Sharky (David Adkins), and their hung-over friend, Ivan (Jim Frangione). The darkly funny first act hardly seems like the fable that the play is supposed to be, where the characters snipe at each other in a pre-Christmas, alcoholic binge, but it is a set-up for the real story which comes to life in the second act. At ... Read Full Story

Conor McPherson has made the leap from stage to screen, ghosts in tow. The acclaimed Irish playwright premiered his film "The Eclipse" at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it was met this week with critical praise (Variety called it a film of "seductive grace") and interest from distributors. Much like McPherson's plays ("The Weir," "The Seafarer," "Shining City") "The Eclipse" bears an element of the supernatural. The supernatural, he says, "is what I'm about." "The Eclipse" stars Ciaran Hinds (HBO's "Rome") as a father, two years a widower, living in the Irish coastal city of Cobh. He's a volunteer at the annual literary festival ... Read Full Story

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Legit Reviews: It's a Conor McPherson Christmas at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater, which is presenting not one but two of the Irish writer's yuletide tales of alcoholism and potential redemption. Read Full Story