ARISTOCRATS

Ballybeg Hall once played host to grand balls, musical evenings, tennis parties: its rooms busy, bursting with painters, poets and politicians. And presiding over all of it, the imposing figure of Judge O’Donnell.

Now, on the eve of a wedding, the O’Donnell children return to their ancestral home to find that the rot has set in.

Lyndsey Turner returns to the Donmar following Faith Healer and Philadelphia, Here I Come! to direct Brian Friel’s haunting play about a generation whose past threatens to obliterate its future.

★★★★ ‘Lyndsey Turner directs a beautiful revival of Brian Friel’s drama” Time Out

★★★★ ‘Turner’s direction is elegant and eloquent… Her compelling, abstract, sharp-edged staging is like a lucid dream, acted by a cast who beautifully capture the cadences and rhythms of familial interaction’ Times

★★★★ ‘Lyndsey Turner… offers again here a work of exquisite emotional detail’ Evening Standard