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Home » London Theatre News » Girl From The North Country will embark on its first UK Tour…

Girl From The North Country will embark on its first UK Tour…

November 30, 2021 Last updated: November 30, 2021 12:29 pm By Admin

The award-winning smash-hit production of Girl From The North Country, written and directed by celebrated playwright Conor McPherson (The Weir, The Seafarer) with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, will embark on its first UK Tour following an opening 5-week season at 3Olympia Theatre Dublin from 25 June 2022.

Girl From The North Country on Broadway - photo by Matthew Murphy
Girl From The North Country on Broadway – photo by Matthew Murphy.

The production will tour to Canterbury, Southampton, York, Salford Quays, Newcastle, Bath, Nottingham, Cheltenham, Plymouth, Bradford, Cardiff and Sheffield. Further tour dates are to be announced.

Girl From The North Country is an uplifting and universal story about family and love which boldly reimagines the legendary songs of Bob Dylan, like you’ve never heard them before. The Broadway cast recording of Girl From The North Country has been nominated for a 2022 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album.

It’s 1934 in the heartland of America and we meet a group of wayward souls who cross paths in a time-weathered guesthouse. Standing at a turning point in their lives, they realize nothing is what it seems. But as they search for a future, and hide from the past, they find themselves facing unspoken truths about the present.

Writer and Director Conor McPherson said “Collaborating with Bob Dylan has been a unique privilege for me. We have had an amazing journey opening on Broadway and in the West End but I feel particularly excited and moved to finally bring this work to my home town of Dublin and on tour around the UK.”

Bob Dylan said: “To be associated with Conor is one of the highlights of my professional life. It goes without saying the man is a genius for putting this thing together and I’m thrilled to be a part of the experience. My songs couldn’t be in better hands.”

Girl From The North Country first opened at The Old Vic in July 2017 to huge critical acclaim and playing to sold out audiences. It transferred to the Noël Coward Theatre in December 2017 and won the 2018 Olivier Awards for Best Actress in a Musical and Best Supporting Actress in a Musical as well as being nominated in the Best New Musical, Outstanding Achievement in Music and Best Actor in a Musical categories. The production went on to have a sold out run at the Public Theater, New York in 2018. Following a run at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto, in Autumn 2019, the production had a second run in the West End opening December 2019 at the Gielgud Theatre. The Broadway production is currently playing at the Belasco Theatre and the Australian and New Zealand production opens in Sydney in January 2022.

Casting to be announced.

Sure-handed direction by the author, and a range of outstanding performances from the versatile ensemble. Also, in Ciaran Hinds’s Nick, a moving study of authority undermined by circumstance. With Shirley Henderson powerful as his wife, more perilous than shifting cargo, and Sheila Atim poignant as his desolate daughter, he heads a family whose own crisis mirrors that of the nation. Thank God they’ve got Bob on their side. Review by Alan Franks LondonTheatre1.com

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Girl From The North Country features scenic and costume design by Rae Smith; orchestrations, arrangements, and music supervision by Simon Hale, with additional arrangements by Simon Hale and Conor McPherson, lighting design by Mark Henderson; sound design by Simon Baker; movement direction by Lucy Hind and casting by Jessica Ronane CDG.

Girl From The North Country is produced by Tristan Baker & Charlie Parsons for Runaway Entertainment, Steven Lappin, Sony Music Entertainment UK, David Mirvish and The Old Vic

Conor McPherson is an acclaimed writer and director. He was born in Dublin in 1971 and attended University College Dublin where he began to write and direct. Stage plays include Rum & Vodka, The Good Thief, This Lime Tree Bower, St Nicholas, The Weir (Olivier, Evening Standard, and Critics Circle Awards); Dublin Carol, Port Authority, Shining City (Tony Award-nominated);The Seafarer (Tony, Olivier and Evening Standard Award-nominated); The Veil, and The Night Alive (New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Olivier, Evening Standard and Lucille Lortel Award-nominated). Adaptations include Franz Xaver Kroetz’s The Nest, August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death and most recently, Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

Bob Dylan is one of our culture’s most influential and ground-breaking artists. Born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1941; self-taught on piano, guitar and harmonica, he travelled to New York City in 1961, quickly establishing himself as an explosive performer in the Greenwich Village music scene. More than half a century later, Dylan continues to perform almost 100 concerts each year. He has released more than 50 albums and written over 600 songs. He’s sold more than 125 million records and is the holder of 11 Grammy Awards. His songs have been covered more than 6000 times by artists as diverse as Duke Ellington, Jimi Hendrix, Guns N’ Roses, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley and Adele. He is also an accomplished visual artist and author, and in 2016 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature – the first songwriter to receive such a distinction.

Website: girlfromthenorthcountryshow.com/
Twitter, Instagram and Facebook: @DylanMusical

Tour Dates
3Olympia Theatre, Dublin
25 June – 30 July 2022
(on sale 3 December)

Canterbury Marlowe
16 – 20 August

Southampton Mayflower Theatre
29 August – 3 September

York Theatre Royal
5 – 10 September

Salford Lowry
19 – 24 September

Newcastle Theatre Royal
26 September – 1 October

Bath Theatre Royal
4 – 8 October 2022

Nottingham Theatre Royal
11 – 15 October 2022
(On sale 8 December)

Cheltenham Everyman
25 – 29 October 2022
(On sale 30 November)

Plymouth Theatre Royal
1 – 5 November 2022
(On sale 17 December)

Bradford Alhambra Theatre
29 November – 3 December 2022
(On sale 13 December)

Cardiff Wales Millennium Centre
5 – 10 December 2022
(On sale 3 December)

Sheffield Lyceum
17 – 21 January 2023

Further tour dates to be announced.

Comments

  1. Avatar for JaneJane's Colhoun says

    December 2, 2021 at 11:19 pm

    Simply great news re Girl from the North Country is coming to Dublin, I must book tickets

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