The Brightening Air

The Brightening Air

Gate Theatre, Friday 17th July - Sunday 30th August

Set in a rural homestead in Ireland in the 1980s, The Brightening Air is a haunting new play about longing, magic and the fates that tear us apart.

Adult siblings, Billie and Stephen, share their family home in their own semi-functional way. Until their excommunicated uncle, Fr Pierre, and estranged brother, Dermot, arrive to disturb it all, awakening hidden forces with devastating consequences.

From the author of The Weir and Girl from North County,The Brightening Air is ‘Audacious, hilarious and achingly moving,’ The Evening Standard.

Winner of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award.

Date:
Friday 17th July - Sunday 30th August
Time:
7.30pm (Matinees 2.00pm)
Price:
From €21.50
Address:
Gate Theatre, Cavendish Row, Parnell Square East, Rotunda, Dublin 1, Ireland
Google Map of Gate Theatre, Cavendish Row, Parnell Square East, Rotunda, Dublin 1, Ireland

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