The Ferryman: passion, betrayal and war
Jez Butterworth’s most recent achievement, The Ferryman, is a raucous, heart-wrenching show about family life in the midst of the IRA ‘Troubles’. Set in 1981 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, the play is a string of contrasting ideas, feelings, and beliefs which should make it jarring yet instead it flows together beautifully. Private life clashes with the wider political picture, magic and mystery exist alongside the raw physical work of the harvest, and two women living u