[9] Following the success of the play in London and New York, further productions were scheduled for Chicago (Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 2014)[10] and Los Angeles (Geffen Playhouse, 2015).
[11] The original cast at The Donmar in London [2] and Off-Broadway at The Atlantic: The play is set in the drawing room of an Edwardian house in Dublin which is now a bedsit, inhabited by fifty-something, Tommy.
Ben Brantley wrote of the first London production: "As writer and director, Mr. McPherson has planted in our minds a subliminal awareness of more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in any philosophy.
I do mean only the possibility; but even that nebulous hope kindles a glow, both warming and chilling, you rarely experience at the theatre.
"[12] David Cote wrote in Time Out of the production in New York: "The beauty of McPherson’s writing is that peripheral, shimmery weirdness, the tug at your sleeve of something so otherworldly and luminous, you can’t bear to turn around and look.