Sam Mendes’ Olivier Award-winning production of Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman received equal top billing at this week’s Tony Awards 2019 nominations announcement alongside the hit Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird. The productions both have nine nods including ones for Ferryman actors Paddy Considine (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play), Fionnula Flanagan and Laura Donnelly. The …
NEWS: Hamilton & The Ferryman dominate 2018 Olivier Awards shortlists, Imelda Staunton double nominated
Nominations for the Olivier Awards 2018 are announced today. The shortlists are dominated by Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton and Jez Butterworth’s latest play The Ferryman. Headlines include: New American musical Hamilton becomes the most nominated production in Oliviers history with 13 nominations The Ferryman, currently running in the West End before transferring to Broadway, is the most nominated new play with 8 …
THE FERRYMAN – West End
I always find it fascinating to watch how the critical community deals with a play that becomes a big success. The overnight rush to acclaim genius, the enthusiasm with which some greet it, the scepticism that that inspires in others followed by the relief that comes when someone publishes a well-reasoned critique that allows them to say ‘well it isn’t that good, see’.
NEWS: William Houston & Catherine McCormack lead new cast of The Ferryman
New casting – including William Houston, Sarah Greene and Catherine McCormack –
has been announced for the extended West End season of Jez Butterworth’s critically acclaimed new play The Ferryman.
THE FERRYMAN – West End
Jez Butterworth and Sam Mendes are names pretty much guaranteed to make any theatregoing regular pay attention, both are synonymous with high quality productions (Butterworth’s Jerusalem regularly crops up among best play lists while Mendes’ list of director credits is too long to replay here) and they worked together on Spectre, the most recent movie in the James Bond franchise.
NEWS: The Ferryman extends booking to 6 January, TICKETS ONSALE
Booking has been extended until the new year for the West End premiere of Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, directed by Sam Mendes.
THE FERRYMAN – Royal Court Theatre
Already sold out before it had even opened and announced to be transferring to the West End in June, the combination of Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem, Mojo amongst others) and director Sam Mendes seems to have set the public imagination alight.
THE FERRYMAN – Royal Court Theatre
Set in rural County Armagh, Northern Ireland, in August 1981, the play takes place in the Carney home. This is a farming family, who grow cereals for export, and the head of the household is Quinn Carney (Considine), a former IRA man.
PHOTOS: Full gallery of Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman at Royal Court
Following its run at the Royal Court, which sold out in one day, Jez Butterworth’s epic new play The Ferryman will transfer to the West End’s Gielgud Theatre for 16 weeks from 20 June.
THE FERRYMAN – Royal Court
The play’s the thing though and here, Butterworth has constructed a Northern Irish epic. Set at harvest-time in 1981, deep in County Armagh, the Carney clan are gathering for a humdinger of a do once the work in the field is done.
THE FERRYMAN – Royal Court & West End
Jez Butterworth’s immense, ambitious new play takes us deep into that world and roams beyond it into universal themes of history and legend, memory and love, childhood, song and poetry and national identity and the way national dreams sour to vicious partisan expediency.
NEWS: Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman transfers direct to West End, Paddy Considine leads cast
Following its run at the Royal Court, which sold out in one day, Jez Butterworth’s epic new play The Ferryman will transfer to the West End’s Gielgud Theatre for 16 weeks from 20 June.