Director
Mary McGuckian
Credits
Producers: Mary McGuckian, Anna J. Devlin. Writers: William Butler Yeats, Mary McGuckian
Principal Cast
Jim Sheridan, Orla Brady, Bríd Brennan, Geraldine James, Geraldine Chaplin
Category
Feature
Literature
Mary McGuckian’s atmospheric period piece is an adaptation of a one-act play by W.B. Yeats in which he explored the occult, a subject in which he had a life-long interest. Set during a series of séances hosted by the Dublin Spiritualist Society in 1928, the spirits of Jonathan Swift (Jim Sheridan) and the two women who loved him too passionately - Stella (Bríd Brennan) and Vanessa (Orla Brady) - act out the torment of their tragic triangle through the mediums of Miss Henderson (Geraldine James) and Mrs McKenna (Geraldine Chaplin).
Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn.
98 minutes, Ireland, 1994, Colour