The Weir
Weir, The
Author: Conor McPherson
First Performance: 1997, London
Published: 1997
Genre: Drama in 1 act
Setting: Bar in north-west Ireland, 1990s
Cast: 4m, 1f
Brendan Byrne, a bar-owner in his thirties, is serving Jack Mullen, a garage mechanic (fifties) and his friend Jim Curran (forties), occasional handyman. The talk is of the weather, betting, and especially of a new arrival in the area: a woman from Dublin, Valerie (thirties), who is renting an old house from Finbar Mack (late forties), a local hotelier. Finbar has been showing Valerie around and they now come into the bar. They talk about the weir built to generate electricity in 1951, and Jack tells of the fairy road upon which Valerie's house was supposedly built. Many years ago, and again when the weir was built, knocking was heard on the...
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