The Night Alive ****
                        By: David ShewardCiarán Hinds, Michael McElhattonMany of Irish playwright Conor McPherson's works such as The Weir, Shining City, St. Nicholas, and The Seafarer feature ghosts, vampires, and devils as metaphors for the forces of loneliness and bad luck that oppress his misbegotten characters. In his The Night Alive, no…