James Laurenson, Paul Higgins, Elaine Cassidy, Emmet Kirwan, Aisling Loftus Photo

From: Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with the Donmar's ARISTOCRATS

Ballybeg Hall once played host to grand balls, musical evenings, tennis parties: its rooms busy, bursting with painters, poets and politicians. And presiding over all of it, the imposing figure of Judge O'Donnell. Now, on the eve of a wedding, the O'Donnell children return to their ancestral home to find that the rot has set in.