Conor McPherson

SHINING CITY

Isn't it sometimes the case that the doctor is actually the one who needs psychotherapy?

What comes to light when, after the loss of his wife, John turns to psychotherapist Ian, a former priest… The patient is haunted by the ghost of his beloved wife, and he needs to confess to the doctor to make the apparition disappear. But it turns out that this mentally stable, self-assured specialist dishing out sage advice has quite a bit to hide himself. He has his own skeletons in the closet – no less frightening than his patient's. Suddenly, reality is more spooky than it seemed at the start of the session…

Grief and loneliness, longing and selfishness, secrets and revelations, and one determined female ghost in a world of two men. Dmitrijs Petrenko (“He Said, She Said”, 2025)) returns to the stage of the New Hall at the Dailes Theatre to direct “Shining City” by Irish playwright Conor McPherson that saw its global premiere in 2004 at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

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