National Theatre Live: The Brightening Air

National Theatre Live: The Brightening Air (2025) is a drama, comedy film directed by Conor McPherson.

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.

Cast

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