Conor McPherson's St Nicholas

“QTC has become the best stage to experience McPhersons plays in the Washington, D.C. area… a tremendous credit to the local theater scene.” — DC Theatre Scene. One of Ireland’s most brilliant contemporary playwrights, Conor McPherson, helped establish his reputation with this early play, ST NICHOLAS. The play asks the audience to question whether a Dublin theatre critic (Steve Beall) really did run into vampires while chasing a young actress in London? Directed by the critically acclaimed Jack Sbarbori, who has specialized in directing the plays of McPherson and Horton Foote.
Per DC Theatre Scene, in McPherson’s SHINING CITY Beall delivered “a tour-de-force performance as the haunted widower. Much of the play turns on his extended monologues, especially Scene Three, where the audience comes face to face with the beating heart of the play. Sitting on a couch, slightly hunched over, crossing and uncrossing his legs, gesturing with his hands, gulping down a glass of water, Beall unravels his guilt-stricken discourse, made up of all the recognizable twists and turns of our own lives. His riveting performance is complicated and raw, compassionate and wry.”
Chris Klimek reviewed Beall’s portrayal of Dermot in McPherson’s PORT AUTHORITY as follows “Steve Beall has so much fun with middle-aged Dermots shrugging acceptance of his unaccountable good fortune that when reality comes back to kick him in the stomach as we know it must, it breaks your heart.”