Excitement greets new play The Ferryman by a writer as at ease writing for theatre as writing Bond films It will come as no surprise to those who have followed Jez Butterworth's career that his new play, although set at the time of the hunger strike during the Troubles, takes place not in Belfast but in the countryside. Few details have been released, but The Ferryman will be set in rural Derry in 1981, where a multi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM on November 4, 2016