Juno and the Paycock 2024
Opened: September 21, 2024Closing: November 23, 2024
Juno 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
Turgid
4 / 10
Warchus sets a stiff, strained tone, leaning hard into the play’s comic potential, but smoothing off the sharp edges of its social commentary. Here, the piece becomes a kind of anti-farce, full of lurching contrivances and characters bursting in through doors and windows, their sudden arrivals marking hairpin tonal swerves. While there are some hilarious set pieces and some compelling moments of pathos, the production never recovers from its uneven energy and slack pace.
Mark Rylance and J Smith Cameron fail to spark
4 / 10
The difficulty with this approach is that it leaves both play and character nowhere to go when the darker shades of O’Casey’s writing and the keening undertow of the Irish Republican movement’s violence begin to rise to the surface. As the play deepens, and the family is torn apart, it’s only the set that breaks – with the arrival of a non-naturalistic pieta striving for the emotion that the production has failed to generate. The ending is also clumsily altered, to suggest something bleaker than Boyle’s final conclusion about a world of chaos.
Review Roundup: Did Mark Rylance and J. Smith-Cameron Impress in JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK?
by Aliya Al-Hassan - October 7, 2024
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.
Photos: J. Smith-Cameron, Mark Rylance, & More in JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK
by Blair Ingenthron - October 6, 2024
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!
Review: JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, Gielgud Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - October 7, 2024
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.
Full Cast Set For JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK Starring J. Smith-Cameron and Mark Rylance
by Stephi Wild - August 21, 2024
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 |
Off-Broadway |
| 2000 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 2013 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 2019 | Off-Broadway |
Irish Rep O'Casey Cycle Production Off-Broadway |
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