Shining City

Synopsis

A brilliant, haunting play from the multi-award winning author of <i>The Weir</i>.

Ian has left the priesthood to become a therapist.

John is one of his first clients.

John's wife has been killed in a car accident, and he keeps receiving visits from her ghost.

John, with Ian's help, starts to recover.

But what begins as an unusual encounter becomes a desperate struggle between the living and the dead - a struggle which will shape and define both of them for the rest of their lives.

<i>Shining City</i> premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2004.

'moving, compassionate, ingenious and absolutely gripping ... scenes that provoke great, generous gales of laughter, others that send a shiver of fear down the spine ... riveting' <i>Telegraph</i>

'quiet, haunting and absolutely glorious... as close to perfection as contemporary playwriting gets' <i>New York Times</i>

'compulsively gripping...

McPherson brilliantly reconciles the mundane and the metaphysical' <i>Guardian</i>

Themes

• Ex-clergy
• Ex-clergy--Drama
• Psychotherapist and patient--Drama
• Psychotherapist and patient