Conor McPherson Plays: Four

Acclaimed as a major dramatist since his early success with The Weir, Conor McPherson's ability to weave theatrical magic reaches a new maturity in these four plays, premiered over the span of a dozen years. In each of them, deeply suppressed emotion is exposed to shattering outside forces in pitch-perfect writing that combines grit with lyricism, humour with profundity, and the riotous with the elegiac…The Night Alive (Donmar Warehouse, London, 2013) is set in a Dublin bedsit, where the li