Check out the latest photos and videos of Conor McPherson’s The Weir, coming to the West End this autumn 2025.
The Weir is playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London from 12 September to 6 December 2025.
The production stars multi-award-winning Hollywood actor Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin, Paddington 2) making his West End debut as Jack.
The Weir also stars Owen McDonnell (Bad Sisters, Killing Eve) as Brendan, Seán McGinley (That They May Face the Rising Sun, The Brightening Air) as Jim, Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders, Wolf Hall) as Valerie, and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Dancing at Lughnasa, Say Nothing) as Finbar.
Just in: The first production photos of The Weir have been released, with the production now playing at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin until 6 September 2025, ahead of its West End run.
Photos: The Weir starring Brendan Gleeson
Written and directed by Conor McPherson (Girl From the North Country, The Brightening Air), The Weir is produced by Kate Horton Productions and Landmark Productions.
Joining Conor McPherson in the creative team are Rae Smith (set and costume design), Mark Henderson (lighting design) and Kevin Gleeson (sound design).
Set on a stormy night in an isolated pub in rural Ireland, four local men gather. 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.
Brendan Gleeson is an acclaimed film, TV and stage actor, and winner of a Primetime Emmy Award, two British Independent Film Awards and three IFTA Awards, as well as Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations.
Other new Conor McPherson projects include the return of his hit musical Girl From the North Country, featuring the songs of Bob Dylan, at The Old Vic until 23 August 2025.
McPherson has also written a new stage show based on the hit movie and book franchise The Hunger Games, with The Hunger Games on Stage opening at new East London venue Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre on 20 October 2025, directed by Matthew Warchus.
His other new projects include a new adaptation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, in a new West End production starring Kristin Scott Thomas, directed by Ian Rickson.
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📷 Main photo: Brendan Gleeson in The Weir – photo by Rich Gilligan.
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