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Brendan Gleeson to make West End debut in Conor McPherson’s The Weir
Revival of the ‘profoundly moving’ Irish pub drama will open at the Olympia theatre in Dublin before arriving in London this autumn
Brendan Gleeson will make his West End debut this autumn in a revival of The Weir, directed for the first time by its playwright Conor McPherson. His new play, The Brightening Air, has just opened at the Old Vic which is reviving the 2017 Bob Dylan musical Girl from the North Country, which he wrote and directed, this summer. The Weir was staged at the small upstairs theatre at the Royal Court in London in 1997, with Jim Norton – a McPherson regular – in the role of local garage owner Jack, the part Gleeson will now play.
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