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

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

The title, The Brightening Air, is a direct quote from Yeats and captures the moment when our magical dreams hit the light of reality. The play treads a mystical path through its people’s concrete ...

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 ...

The Irish actor returns to the stage alongside Brian Gleeson and Rosie Sheehy at the Old Vic, but does Conor McPherson's ...

It would be no hyperbole to state that this is the English language answer to Chekhov; The Brightening Air, with its themes ...

There are obvious debts to legendary Irish playwright Brian Friel and his deluded religious visionaries, and to Chekhov’s ...

The siblings’ not-quite-peace is disturbed by the arrival of Uncle Pierre ( Seán McGinley ), a newly blind, “more or less ...

Read our review of new play *The Brightening Air*, starring Chris O'Dowd and Rosie Sheehy, now in performances at the Old Vic ...

Audacious. That’s the word for Conor McPherson’s new play, a hilarious and achingly moving slice of dysfunctional rural Irish ...

The last time Conor McPherson staged an original, straight play was with The Night Alive in 2013. So The Brightening Air, his ...