The Weir review " a welcome return to Conor McPherson's old haunt
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghAmanda Gaughan's excellent revival highlights the loneliness of the characters gathered to tell tales in a rural pubThere's something unsatisfying about a certain type of ghost story. Like a card trick or a sparkler, it dazzles but leaves no impression; momentarily spooky, then gone. Playwright Conor McPherson fixes this problem.It would be easy to think of The Weir as just a series of chilling…