TV Review: Blackmail in the basement as McPherson delves deep
Conor McPherson’s plays, among them The Weir and The Seafarer, have elements of the supernatural
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The characters who actors inhabit have their ups and downs. Not long ago, Tom Hughes was Prince Albert in the ITV series Victoria. Now, in playwright Conor McPherson’s unsettling three-parterPaula(RTÉ One, BBC Two), he’s James, a predator surviving on the margins.
He lives in a relationship with two women, one of whom is ...