The Weir

Through Nov. 20, $10-$15, Curio Theatre Co. at Calvary Center, 4740 Baltimore Ave., 215-525-1350, curiotheatre.org.

by Mark Cofta

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Published: Oct 28, 2009

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"[It's] a world, half imagined, half rooted in reality," says playwright Conor McPherson in American Theatre magazine, of the ghost stories told in his native rural Ireland's little pubs. Those tales inspired his eerie The Weir, which Curio co-founder Jared Reed explains as "a play about people in a room telling stories that have affected them to the core and shaped them, for good or bad, as the adults they are now." To add to the spook factor, we're placed "inside the pub, though still apart from it," according to director Gay Carducci-Kuhn; in other words, barely visible in the dark.

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