by Jez Butterworth
seen at the Gielgud Theatre on 30 September 2017
Sam Mendes directs Butterworth's new play set in rural Northern Ireland in September 1981, as news of the death of an IRA hunger striker reaches a farming family busy with the harvest and hoping that their involvement in the Troubles is more or less behind them. Paddy Considine as Quinn Carney and Laura Donnelly as his sister-in-law Caitlin lead a superb cast of over twenty actors in this stunning evocation of a family beset with memories, tragedies and evasions, with both chaotic and affectionate interactions between generations, with deep engagement in the business of farming, and with a fateful vulnerability after all to the political situation around them.
