Stars of stage and screen to play Bath in award-winning Broadway hit comedy about love, marriage and squirrels!
THE REALISTIC JONESES
By Will Eno; Directed by Simon Evans
Ustinov Studio, Thursday 6 February – Saturday 7 March
Next month, the Ustinov Studio hosts the latest in its internationally acclaimed programme of UK premieres, the award-winning comedy, THE REALISTIC JONESES -a hilarious, quirky and touching portrait of marriage, life and squirrels, starring screen favourites Corey Johnson and Sharon Small.
Will Eno’s play begins in a suburban backyard one bucolic evening where Bob and Jennifer Jones, and their new neighbours, John and Pony Jones, find they have more in common than their identical homes and last name. The couples find they are drawn to each other and their desperate attempts to connect evolve into a funny, intimate and profound meditation on life.
Corey Johnson’s television credits include playing Donald Trump in Channel 4’s The Windsors and the Doctor Who episode, Dalek. His many film credits include Hellboy, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Captain Phillips and The Bourne Ultimatum. Stage credits include A Streetcar Named Desire in New York, the National Theatre’s production of Man and Superman and West End roles in Enron, Frost/Nixon and Popcorn.
Sharon Small is well-known as DS Barbara Havers in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, and Trudi Malloy in the BBC drama Mistresses. Film credits include About A Boy. She recently toured in the West Yorkshire Playhouse production of Still Alice.
They are joined by Jack Laskey, who has played numerous roles for the RSC, and plays DS Peters in ITV’s Endeavour, and Olivier Award nominee Clare Foster, whose West End credits include Travesties, Merrily We Roll Along, Avenue Q and Crazy For You.
The Realistic Joneses appeared on Broadway in 2014, where it received a Drama Desk Special Award and was named Best Play on Broadway by USA Today, and best American play of 2014 by The Guardian. It was named as one of the “25 best American plays since Angels in America” by the New York Times. Will Eno’s play The Open House was on both TIME Magazine and Time Out New York’s Top Ten Plays of 2014 and was staged in the Ustinov Studio in 2017.
Director Simon Evans has worked at the Trafalgar Studios, the Donmar Warehouse, the National Theatre and the Bush where his recent credits include Will Eno’s Thom Pain (based on nothing), Killer Joe, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and The Dazzle. He is also a two-time recipient of the Close-Up Magician of the Year Award.
THE REALISTIC JONESES is at the Ustinov Studio from Thursday 6 February – Saturday 7 March. Tickets are on sale now from the Box Office on 01225 448844 or online at www.theatreroyal.org.uk/ustinov