The Veil, National Theatre
Conor McPherson has set his latest play at an interesting point in Irish " and European " history. It is 1822, post-Napoleonic wars, and Ireland is in an economic mess, with impoverished peasants facing the failure of their crops for the second year in a row, unable to pay the rent to the Ascendancy landlords living in the "Big House". Lady Madeleine Lambroke (Fenella Woolgar), mistress of the slowly decaying Mount P…
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