The River at Greenwich Theatre Playing at Greenwich Theatre right now is Jez Butterworth‘s The River. It returns to the London stage in its first professional production since its premiere at the Royal Court in 2012. It’s a revival that we’ve called challenging and rewarding with a cast absolutely on top of their game in our recent review. In the play an unnamed man (Paul McGann) takes his girlfriend on a fishing retreat to his uncle’s cabin, but once there, ...

Challenging and rewarding with a cast absolutely on top of their game.

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A masterful one-man performance of a play that examines the Irish troubles in a thought provoking and heart wrenching way.

Pros: First-rate writing and direction, a stellar cast, thoughtful staging and a heartbreaking story. Cons: It is quite long (three hours). It’s Armagh, 1981, and the Carney family, abundant with elders, children, and a goose, are preparing for the annual harvest in a time rife with uncertainty. Seamus Carney’s body is found in a bog, with a bullet in his head, which leads his family down a slippery slope, whether they are aware of it or not, to a potential ...

A dark and disturbing tour-de-force set in a Soho club in the Rock and Roll 50’s . As comic as it is terrifying.