Shining City
Description
A brilliant, haunting play from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.
Ian has left the priesthood to become a therapist. John is one of his first clients. John's wife has been killed in a car accident, and he keeps receiving visits from her ghost. John, with Ian's help, starts to recover. But what begins as an unusual encounter becomes a desperate struggle between the living and the dead – a struggle which will shape and define both of them for the rest of their lives.
Reviews
"At his best Conor McPherson is a writer who combines great character comedy with a real sense of pathos. And Shining City is Conor McPherson at his very best... Guilt, sex and therapy with a script from acting heaven."
- Daily Mail
"Moving, compassionate, ingenious and absolutely gripping ... scenes that provoke great, generous gales of laughter, others that send a shiver of fear down the spine ... riveting."
- Telegraph
"Writing at its most riveting."
- The Times
"Compulsively gripping... McPherson brilliantly reconciles the mundane and the metaphysical."
- Guardian
"Quiet, haunting and absolutely glorious... Shining City is as close to perfection as contemporary playwriting gets."
- New York Times
"The finest dramatist of his generation... McPherson is back in business, writing magnificently."
- Daily Telegraph
"McPherson at his best, laying bare the soul in all its pathetic, flawed ordinariness."
- Evening Standard