Tony-Winning World War I Drama Journey’s End Returns to the West End

Broadway.com: Tony-Winning World War I Drama Journey’s End Returns to the West End

David Grindley's Tony-winning production of Journey's End, R.C. Sherriff's World War I drama, is set to return to the London stage this summer. The play will begin performances at the Duke of York's Theatre on the West End on July 19, ahead of an official opening on July 22. The limited engagement will run until September 3, after which Journey’s End will resume its UK tour in Glasgow on September 6.

Journey’s End is set in the British trenches at St. Quentin in 1918, in the days leading up to the last great German Offensive of the First World War, a day that saw the deaths of 38,000 men. The cast will feature Graham Butler, Tim Chipping, Andy Daniel, Daniel Hanna, Simon Harrison, Nigel Hastings, Mike Hayley, Dominic Mafham, James Norton, Christian Patterson and Tony Turner as a company of officers preparing for a daring raid across No Man’s Land to gather intelligence.

The production originally opened at the Comedy Theatre in January 2004, before transferring to the Playhouse Theatre and then to the Duke of York’s and went on to complete two major tours around the United Kingdom, in 2004 and 2005. A Broadway production of the play received six 2007 Tony nominations and won the Tony for Best Revival. The Broadway mounting featured 2007 Tony nominees Boyd Gaines and Stark Sands alongside Jefferson Mays and Hugh Dancy as Captain Stanhope, the commander of this group of British officers awaiting their day of reckoning in a trench in France on the eve of a major battle.

Journey’s End is presented by Flora Suk-Hwa Yoon and Lee Menzies with Act Productions Ltd, Jeremy Meadow, Suzanna Rosenthal and The Shaftesbury Theatre.