Juno and the Paycock
Closing: November 23, 2024Juno and the Paycock - West End History , Info & More
Gielgud Theatre
(Piccadilly Circus) Shaftesbury Avenue London
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?
Poetic, poignant, and hilarious, JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK is a big-hearted, black-humoured, tragi-comic triumph that reflects on a mother’s resilience in the midst of life’s most trying moments.
‘WHAT CAN GOD DO AGAINST THE STUPIDITY OF MEN?’
Tony award-nominee J. Smith-Cameron (Succession’s Gerri Kellman) stars as Juno Boyle opposite Mark Rylance as ‘Captain’ Jack Boyle in a highly anticipated new production of JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, Seán O’Casey's timeless masterpiece, directed by Tony and Olivier award-winner Matthew Warchus (Matilda The Musical, Pride).
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Audio Described, 2 November, 2pm
Captioned, 9 November, 2pm
Signed, 19 October, 2pm
Juno and the Paycock - - West End Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR Juno and the Paycock
Succession’s J Smith-Cameron out-acts Mark Rylance
6 / 10
The role of the Captain contains the faintest echoes of Johnny “Rooster” Byron, the iconic part in Jerusalem that made Rylance a star, and he consciously plays to the audience, raising his eyebrows for comic effect and addressing various lines directly to us. He sails dangerously close to giving a “turn” instead of acting a part; his blustering innocent shtick and bent-kneed waddle of a walk is overdone, leaving the series of sucker punch revelations of the third act to land with too much of a discordant jolt.
Mark Rylance is so over the top he could be auditioning for Mrs Brown’s Boys
4 / 10
His version of the feckless Captain Jack is a leering, gurning loafer who bears more than a passing resemblance to Charlie Chaplin’s tramp. Sit near the front of the stalls and you’ll find Rylance constantly trying to catch your eye as he performs yet another double-take. It’s weirdly laboured, and makes the play’s sudden transition from high jinks to grim melodrama all the harder to take.
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by Aliya Al-Hassan - October 7, 2024
Tony award-nominee J. Smith-Cameron stars as Juno Boyle opposite Mark Rylance as ‘Captain’ Jack Boyle in a highly anticipated new production of Juno and the Paycock, Seán O’Casey's timeless masterpiece, directed by Tony and Olivier award-winner Matthew Warchus. So what did the critics think? Read the reviews.
by Blair Ingenthron - October 6, 2024
Check out photos from the West End production of JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK starring J. Smith-Cameron, Mark Rylance, and more here!
by Aliya Al-Hassan - October 7, 2024
A cost of living crisis, people being fit to work but choosing not to, poverty, nationalism and women's control of their own bodies. Seán O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock may have first been performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924, but a century later, his tragicomedy resonates more strongly than ever.
by Stephi Wild - August 21, 2024
The full cast has been announced for the new production of Seán O'Casey's timeless masterpiece, Juno and the Paycock, directed by Tony and Olivier award-winner Matthew Warchus.
Juno and the Paycock History
Other Productions of Juno and the Paycock
| 1926 | Broadway |
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| 1927 | Broadway |
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| 1934 | Broadway |
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| 1937 | Broadway |
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| 1940 | Broadway |
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| 1988 | Broadway |
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| 1995 | Off-Broadway |
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| 2000 | Off-Broadway |
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| 2013 | Off-Broadway |
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| 2019 | Off-Broadway |
Irish Rep O'Casey Cycle Production Off-Broadway |
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