OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Conor McPherson 

• Setting

  Rural Ireland, 1822

• Synopsis

  The defrocked Reverend Berkeley arrives at the crumbling former glory of Mount Prospect House to accompany seventeen-year-old Hannah to England. She is to be married off to a Marquis in order to resolve the debts of her mother’s estate. However, compelled by the strange voices that haunt his beautiful young charge and a fascination with the psychic current that pervades the house, Berkeley proposes a séance, the consequences of which are catastrophic.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

• Cast Size Male

  3

• Cast Size Female

  5

ORIGINAL PRODUCTION

• Date of First Production

  27 September 2011

• Producer

  Produced by Royal National Theatre

• Original Venue

  Royal National Theatre
  

• Venue Notes

  First staged on the Lyttleton stage at the National Theatre.

SOURCE OF INFORMATION

The information for this entry was taken from the company website.