The production will begin performances at the Gielgud Theatre from the 21st September.
It has been announced that Mark Rylance (Jerusalem, Dr Semmelweiss) and J Smith-Cameron (Succession) will star in the centenary revival of Sean O’Casey’s 1924 play, directed by Matthew Warchus. Further casting has yet to be announced.
Dublin, 1922, the Irish Civil War is tearing the nation apart. In the cauldron of the family’s tiny tenement flat, Juno Boyle, a beleaguered matriarch whose sharp wit is a survival tool, struggles to make ends meet and keep the family together. Her husband, ‘Captain’ Jack Boyle, fancies himself a ship’s commander but sails no further than the pub. When providence comes knocking with news of a great inheritance, could the family’s troubles finally fade away?
Turned into a film in 1930, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, this production’s creative team includes: Rob Howell (set and costume designer), Hugh Vanstone (lighting designer), Claire van Kampen (composer) and Serena Hill CDG (casting director).
Talking about the news Matthew Warchus said: “I have long been in love with this staggeringly great melodrama – a play which collides an Irish working-class domestic tragedy with some of the comedic bravura of the 1920s Music Hall in an unforgettable indictment of the chaos of civil war.
“I’m very excited to be embarking on my seventh collaboration with Mark Rylance, and my first with the brilliant American actress J. Smith-Cameron, on the 100-year anniversary production of this internationally acclaimed, strikingly relevant, Irish classic.”
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