The Seafarer is a 2006 play by Irish playwright Conor McPherson. It is set on Christmas Eve in Baldoyle a coastal suburb north of Dublin city. The play centers on James Sharky Harkin an alcoholic who has recently returned to live with his blind aging brother Richard Harkin. As Sharky attempts to stay off the bottle during the holidays he contends with the hard-drinking irascible Richard and his own haunted conscience.
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