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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
FeatureLiterature
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
& SONS 15.00, 20.30
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: HORSE PLAYS (PROGRAMME 2) 13.30
IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2026: PAPAYA 17.00
LADY 12.50, 17.3020:40
TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA 15.30, 20.40
THE ODYSSEY 14.40, 19.40 (Digital)
TONY 13.00, 18.10
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