#conor mcpherson

[savagewildnerness]

I’ve never met Sam, but he did photobomb me once!

I wish I wasn’t such a shy, reserved person, as I adored Sam in this play, but it took ALL of my energy to get myself to get a photo with just the incredible Shirley Henderson (even though I’d seen the play probably 10-15 times at this point. I utterly ADORED it & everyone in it.) I am SO scared of being annoying! You do not understand how much it took for me to build myself up to get a photo & autograph from just the ONE human! Gosh, Shirley was insanely great in this play! Like you couldn’t take your eyes off her magnificence! And the emotion in how she sang: I can feel it just as strongly in my heart right now still.

Anyway, I was too scared & incapable of speaking to everyone/too afraid to be annoying to more than one human! So I didn’t get an autograph or photo with Sam or anyone else in the play.

However, I noticed that there is Sam, in the background here!! Teehee! He was SO un-Lestat back then! But the character he played in this play had a tragedy to him. As did all the characters in the play. It was such a yearning play. Sam played a young man who had so much potential (in life & love), yet squandered it till he was doomed to tragedy… and how realistic is that to reality! I feel (& am) that. Everyone tended towards satisfying, resonant, true, beautiful & sorrowful tragedy & there was never any other conclusion. Gosh, I ADORED it! And THE MUSIC! But music with all the resonance folk who are actors first can give it.

Honestly I would give ANYTHING to experience this play, especially incredible Shirley just one more time. It’s in my top 5 plays ever. It’s an awful photo of me, as even on my 15th watch of the play, I had spent the entire 2-3 hours sobbing! It was SO SAD! I cried just as much every single time I watched it.

Also, LOL - you know you’re short when Shirley Henderson crouches for a photo with you!!! Look at us, like wee gnomes, with normal human-sized Sam in the background! 😂😅😂🤣😭💀

[richardarmitagefanpage]

Uncle Vanya is now available on Digital Theatre+.

[paulgrossaddict]

PAUL GROSS’s NEWS

another wonderful thing that I won't see 🥺, but here is the information

The Seafarer

By Conor McPherson

Starring Paul Gross

Directed by Peter Pasyk

OCTOBER 15 – NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Photo of Paul Gross by Dahlia Katz

Theatre

Alberta Theatre Projects 50 anniversary

some articles

Calgary Herald

CTV news

Zoom

[yourenotevenirish]

Brendan Coyle to perform as Jack.

[letterboxd-loggd]

The Actors (2003) Conor McPherson

December 10th 2022

[willstafford]

Bleak House

GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, Tuesday 7thFebruary 2023 Imagine Bob Dylan wrote Les Misérables but set it in 1930s dustbowl America à la Steinbeck.  If you can do that, you’re some way to understanding what this show is like.  Technically, a jukebox musical, raiding Dylan’s back catalogue and stringing songs together to tell a story, except it’s not, not really.  The…

[alltrekvarnews]

La obra de 'Los Juegos del Hambre' se dirige al West End de Londres en otoño de 2024; Conor McPherson, de 'Girl From The North Country', adaptará su Primera Novela y Película

[thesweetnessofspring]

Suzanne's statement on the stage adaptation: "I'm very excited to be collaborating with the amazing team of Conor McPherson and Matthew Dunster as they bring their dynamic and innovative interpretation of The Hunger Games to the London stage."

[rogersandclarke]

seated for girl from the north country. so you’re telling me duquesne whistle is in this thing? conor mcpherson you’re a maniac…

[pers-books]

The Dance of Death

Conor McPherson’s darkly comic version of Strindberg’s classic about a toxic marriage starring Robert Glenister, Hattie Morahan and Blake Ritson.

Set in a military outpost off the coast of Sweden, the Captain and his wife Alice embark on a series of spiteful games in an attempt to alleviate the hell they’ve created for themselves. Events take a new and disturbing turn when Kurt, a divisive figure from their past, arrives back on the scene.

The Captain ….. Robert Glenister

Alice ….. Hattie Morahan

Kurt ….. Blake Ritson

Piano performed by Peter Ringrose

Directed by Gemma Jenkins

Written in 1900 Strindberg originally intended to call this dissection of a marriage gone bad, The Vampire. The story twists and turns around the febrile energy given off by this trio of characters as they each feed off the unhappiness of the other.

Airs Sunday 19 Mar 2023 at 19:30 on BBC RADIO 3 - remember BBC radio can be listened to anywhere in the world for free.

Tagging @riversofmars and @meluisart - did you guys see this?

[savagewildnerness]

Incidentally, the photo I shared the other day, it is a Live Photo, so I share again so you can see me being blinky, Shirley saying “Okay” & Sam being noddy! 😂

I adored this play so much! I haven’t been to London now since February 2020 & I miss the days I sat in the theatre(s) for (many other plays &) this play as I saw it at both the Old Vic & the Noel Coward Theatre for hours, alone, immersed in the glorious world of this play!

Teehee. It’s so weird to me that Sam was literally a few metres away from me, but I was too scared to ask everyone for photos! Or anyone, beyond Shirley! I wish I had been braver now! But then again, I’m glad I didn’t annoy Sam & I guess I have a memento photo anyway! Here it is! It’s not only a photo even, LOL! It’s a video, essentially 😂.

The play was so exquisite though! I don’t think I could have coped to also know Sam would one day be Lestat on top of the exquisite glory that the play was. If you ever get the chance to see Shirley Henderson on stage, run as fast as you can at that! Sam wasn’t bad either! 😉😁😇 The while cast were glorious! But Shirley was transcendent! Just mesmerising, she was. And the emotion as she sang. I wish I could describe the emotional power. I’m crying now, because I can bring it back into my heart still now - how it felt. I mean, you can listen to the cast recording, but obviously it had more power in the context of the play. Why do time machines not exist? Anyway! Lucky me to have experienced it.

I’m actually very glad that at least I steeled myself enough to do this! I don’t know exactly how many times I saw the play (but I did see it enough that once at the Old Vic when I got a ticket on the day, the box office staff gave me the seat in the centre circle they usually save in case the Director wants to watch any performance, so the staff clearly knew I was there *again*!!! 😇 To give me the special seat… I think I only saw it twice at the Noel Coward Theatre though as it was more expensive then, but this particular photo was after the very final performance, which I was lucky to be at. They were dismantling the set & taking it out if the back of the theatre too.)

I did a tour of the Old Vic while it was on there too & so stood on the stage. In my humble opinion, The Old Vic is the most beautiful theatre in London & standing on the (massive!) stage, looking out at the auditorium it makes you desire to be there, performing. I felt similarly to how Lestat must have as a young boy, that world & its feeling so clear!

I’m not a big fan of musicals (though I love some, if I feel them!) but plays with music in are my absolute favourite. Because I love & feel music deeply & when you can be moved by music AND be moved by the incredible skill of actors (How do people act!? It’s a mystery to me! I find it awkward enough being even myself & like I don’t know how to be a real person!!) & it all combines, especially in such an aching, yearning play about the sorrowful tragedy of being alive & our sad, doomed lives. Oh, it’s so resonant and perfect!

I miss live theatre very much indeed!

Buuutttt…. TV vampires certainly are a fair substitute! They’ll do me, for now!!

Anyway, I thought I’d share this silly wee video!! 😂😅😇

[richardarmitagefanpage]

Uncle Vanya is available to watch on BBC iPlayer for four days only.

[kiurit]

the actors (2003) dir. conor mcpherson

[hattie-morahan]

Set in a military outpost off the coast of Sweden, the Captain and his wife Alice embark on a series of spiteful games in an attempt to alleviate the hell they’ve created for themselves. Events take a new and disturbing turn when Kurt, a divisive figure from their past, arrives back on the scene.

The Captain ….. Robert Glenister Alice ….. Hattie Morahan Kurt ….. Blake Ritson

Piano performed by Peter Ringrose Directed by Gemma Jenkins

Written in 1900 Strindberg originally intended to call this dissection of a marriage gone bad, The Vampire. The story twists and turns around the febrile energy given off by this trio of characters as they each feed off the unhappiness of the other.

Broadcast date: 19 March 2023 

This will be uploaded to our Audio Archive once it’s aired.

[racailledefez]

“When I was a boy, I was afraid of the dark…

What was there.

And maybe one of the things I thought was there

was vampires.”

- St Nicholas by Conor McPherson -