Brendan Gleeson delights in West End debut revival of The Weir

When laconic barman Brendan (Owen McDonnell) arrives, Jack warns him that local boy-made-good Finbar, now a Carrick hotelier with a property empire, has rented a long-empty nearby house to an attractive Dublin woman. Apparently enamoured, he’s bringing her to the pub. This prompts mild disapproval from Brendan, more for the disruption it will cause to the normal arc of an evening than for the fact that Finbar is married. With Jim (Seán McGinley, a stolid, ageing odd-job man with an ancient, ailing mother, they agree that Finbar is a terrible bollix.