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Juno and the Paycock West End

Juno and the Paycock 2024

Opened: September 21, 2024
Closing: 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).



__Assisted Perfromances:__


Audio Described, 2 November, 2pm


Captioned, 9 November, 2pm


Signed, 19 October, 2pm


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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 delights as a drunken fantasist Dubliner
6 / 10

Director Matthew Warchus has gathered a talented cast, from Smith-Cameron as a formidably watchable presence to Rylance as her peacocking husband. They are never less than entertaining but the show does not stretch them, and the drama of the first two acts is a little too ambling and creaky, with the broad Irish accents and comic dissolution.

Review Roundup: Did Mark Rylance and J. Smith-Cameron Impress in JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK?
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


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


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


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
Broadway
1927   Broadway
Broadway
1934   Broadway
Broadway
1937   Broadway
Broadway
1940   Broadway
Broadway
1988   Broadway
Broadway
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
   West End
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