
Feature film — 2025
National Theatre Live: The Brightening Air (2025)
The family home is more than merely a building. It can be a destination of pilgrimage, an inherited investment, a repository of memory or even magic. And, for brother and sister Stephen and Billie, home is all they have. Mucking along in their decaying farmhouse, they're doing just fine. That is, until the arrival of an ex-clergyman uncle with an unscrupulous plan, a sister-in-law seeking a miracle, and a prodigal brother hell-bent on trouble.
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Director: Conor McPherson
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Cast & crew

Brian Gleeson
Stephen

Rosie Sheehy
Billie

Hannah Morrish
Lydia

Chris O'Dowd
Dermot
Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty
Brendan

Aisling Kearns
Freya

Derbhle Crotty
Elizabeth

Sean McGinley
Pierre
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