Donnelly, Raison & West star in Butterworth’s River at Royal Court

The play, Butterworth’s first since his smash hit Jerusalem, centres on a man and a woman during a moonless night in a “remote cabin on the cliffs”.

The River reunites the creative team behind Jerusalem, led by director Ian Rickson and designer Ultz.

Dominic West’s theatre credits include Butley (West
End), The Seagull (Old Vic), As You Like
It (West End), The Voysey Inheritance
(National), Rock ‘n’ Roll (West End) and
Life is a Dream (Donmar). On screen, he’s best known
for playing the character of Jimmy McNulty in HBO drama series
The Wire from 2002 to 2008.

Laura Donnelly’s most recent credits include Philadelphia, Here I Come (Donmar), Judgment Day (Almeida), Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air).

Miranda Raison’s most recent theatre credits include The Physicists (Donmar), Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII (Shakespeare’s Globe). On screen, she played Jo Portman in Spooks from 2005-9.

Jez Butterworth has a long association with the Royal Court stretching back to his award-winning 1995 play Mojo. Subsequent plays for the venue include The Night Heron, The Winterling and Jerusalem, which transferred to the West End and Broadway.

The Court caused some controversy by announcing that tickets for The River will not
be on sale in advance, but will instead go be sold online at 9am the day
of performances, with an allocation being sold at the venue box office
an hour later.