There’s intense, troubled Stephen (Brian Gleeson), who does most of the running of the place; there’s train-mad Billie (Rosie Sheehy), whose tar-thick accent and general lairiness briefly ...

The Brightening Air (a quote from WB Yeats’ poem The Song of Wandering Aengus) treads a familiar path. Sibling rivalries ...

Conor McPherson is directing his own play The Brightening Air at the Old Vic and it truly is quite mesmerising.

Connor McPherson's Chekhovian drama about a pair of siblings whose lives are upended by the arrival of their relations ...

Best of all is Rosie Sheehy, outstanding as Billie, whose frankness makes her both vulnerable and insightful, and who is, like Chekhov’s Sonia, the anchor of the play. It doesn’t all gel.

Conor McPherson's first original stage play for 12 years is soaked in mysticism and melancholy, yet is frequently laugh out loud funny - with a note perfect turn by Chris O'Dowd as a gobshite ...

Rosie Sheehy as Billie and Brian Gleeson as Stephen in The Brightening Air. (Image: Manuel Harlan) The plot, such as it is, hinges around a wife seeking water from a fairy well to restore her ...

Conor McPherson’s new play is a haunting and very funny ensemble piece, with a superb ensemble cast that includes Chris ...

The story takes place in a crumbling farmhouse where siblings Stephen (Brian Gleeson) and Billie (Rosie Sheehy) are just getting by, living a simple, quiet life. That is until their world is ...