The playwright Conor McPherson spins ghost stories. He uses spectral encounters as a way of exploring a theme rooted in the human experience: guilt.

Unfinished business is at the heart of Conor McPherson’s play, Shining City, an often potent and truthful accounting of the way we live. Currently onstage at Quotidian Theatre in Bethesda,  Shining City quietly attempts to lay bare no less than the titanic demons that live in the abyss of human alienation – that painful self-awareness that emanates from each man-as-an-island, and the regret and guilt that originates from knowing that your being hurts others’. [Read more...]