Lyttelton
Southbank
London
SE1 9PX
Directions:
Take the Northern or Bakerloo line to Waterloo station. The theatre is a 10 minute walk.
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The Veil
Lyttelton
Southbank
London
SE1 9PX
Evenings: Various dates and times
Matinees: Various dates and times
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May 1822, rural Ireland.
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 seance, the consequences of which are catastrophic.
Set around a haunted house hemmed in by a restive, starving populace, Conor McPherson's new play weaves Ireland's troubled colonial history into a transfixing story about the search for love, the transcendental and the circularity of time.
His last production for the National was the Tony Award-winning The Seafarer.
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