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Tom Vaughan-Lawlor among cast joining Brendan Gleeson in The Weir
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Owen McDonnell and Kate Phillips are among the new cast members announced to be joining Brendan Gleeson in a new production of The Weir.
The upcoming production of The Weir, which was written by Conor McPherson in 1997, will be directed for the first time by the Irish playwright.
The full cast for the production has now been announced, with Vaughan-Lawlor (Love/Hate, Say Nothing) playing Finbar, McDonnell (Bad Sisters, Killing Eve) playing Brendan, Phillips (Peaky Blinders, Wolf Hall) as Valerie and Seán McGinley (That They May Face the Rising Sun, A Whistle in the Dark) as Jim.
McPherson said: "I couldn't be happier to be working with this brilliant cast.
"It's always exciting embarking on a new production but to revisit The Weir in the company of these particularly accomplished artists feels like a singular privilege and I look forward to sharing this story with audiences in Dublin and London very soon."
A description for the play reads: "On a stormy night, four local men gather in an isolated pub in rural Ireland. Their usual banter and everyday lives are disrupted by the arrival of a woman called Valerie.
"The stories they weave to impress her are gripping, haunting and deeply unsettling. Little do they know that she has a profoundly personal story of her own, the sharing of which will leave them all shaken."
The Weir, which is produced by Landmark Productions and Kate Horton Productions, will run from 8 August to 6 September at 3Olympia Dublin.
The production will then transfer to London's West End at the Harold Pinter Theatre from 12 September to 6 December 2025.
This will mark Gleeson's West End debut.
