Amazon.com description: Product Description: Five plays from Ireland's master storyteller. Conor McPherson burst onto the theatre scene with the Royal Court production of his play The Weir in 1997. This volume of work brings us up to date and includes two of his biggest successes, Shining City (2004) and The Seafarer (2006) along with The Veil, commissioned by The National Theatre in 2011. Published here for the first time are Conor's 2009 adaptation for the Abbey Theatre of Daphne DuMaurier's world famous thriller The Birds and an acclaimed adaptation of Strindberg's masterpiece The Dance of Death seen in London's West End in December 2012. A breathtaking supernatural play, The Seafarer premiered at London's National Theatre to huge acclaim before transferring to Broadway. Shining City was one of the Royal Court's biggest hits, a spine tingling ghost story that chilled audiences to the bone. The Veil, commissioned by the National Theatre, thrilled audiences with its tale of Victorian séances and a ghostly legacy. Daphne DuMaurier's classic The Birds (famously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock) achieved, in Conor's adaptation for Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre, a successful return to the original's nightmarish sense of claustrophobia, while a blackly funny edge was brought to bear on Strindberg's famous study of marital discord The Dance of Death for its West End premiere in 2012.