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He shook audiences with plays about ghosts and demons. Now Conor McPherson has found new life - by transcending German philosophy

say is fascinated by the supernatural is an understatement. The playwright is best known for The Weir (1997), in which the characters tell a series of scary stories with fairies, a Ouija board and a mother haunted by her dead son. Before that, he contested the examiners with St. Nicolas, near a libertine theater critic who falls in love with vampires. The devil stalking the stage in 2006 sailors. Since then he has made a film, The Eclipse, in which fears of a widower who is seeing ghosts in love with a writer - you guessed it -. Ghost Stories

His last work, the veil, which works at the National Theatre, with pulses of paranormal activity: a person hears voices, talking about the meeting "a man who had mirrors in the eyes must being "and a third by Mayhem conduct a meeting. So far, so McPherson - except in most other respects, the veil is unlike anything you've written before. First, there are five female characters, almost more than what is found in the rest of his work as a whole. It is also a period film, set in 1822, opening precisely on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 15 and ends Friday after noon, June 7.

searching the Internet these days to make a lot, so that the elected McPherson. "I could go there without any luggage," he said. "Also, just before the image is a kind of know what you think, but not exactly what you can talk to someone about what happened 100 years ago -.? But 200 years ago "

Not only cunning that led to this decision: it was a lack of confidence. The last time I met McPherson, five years ago, looks like a "nuclear reactor of anxiety" and little seems to have changed. The veil has written since 2008, in the years since the National is committed to him, no adjustment left. "It's a different time, a different way of speaking. I was very careful."

At 20, said he had more courage - even if it was likely to drown in alcohol until he doubts was hospitalized with pancreatitis and nearly die. These days, he feels a greater sense of responsibility. "As you get older - who turned 40 this year - I do not like the public," he said. "I really want them to have a positive experience."

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