The Weir
8 / 10
Four Irishmen and a lass walk into a bar and tell some ghost stories. No joke—that, in short, is the premise of Conor McPherson’s atmospheric drama, The Weir. Set in a pub in 1998 rural Ireland and consisting primarily of monologues, the work does not so much have a beginning, middle, and end as it has a beginning and five middles. Irish Repertory Theatre director Ciarán O’Reilly calls on a veteran cast to make the play palatable, and they do not disappoint, together offering an engaging interpretation of a piece that, if structurally curious, at least features the three pillars of any good Irish play: loss, regret, and loneliness.
