“A tender, funny, terrific new play… Humane, literate and slyly hilarious… brought me a pleasurable rush virtually unmatched by anything I’ve seen this season” New York Times
★★★★ “Teasingly funny yet poignant” Daily Telegraph
“You could find yourself wondering, long into the night after this haunting play is over, how well you know the people closest to you, or indeed, yourself’” Hollywood Reporter
Named as one of the “25 best American plays since Angels in America” by the New York Times, The Realistic Joneses is a hilarious, quirky and touching portrait of marriage, life and squirrels.
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 recent screen credits include Donald Trump in The Windsors; Hellboy, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Captain Phillips, The Bourne Ultimatum, and the Doctor Who episode, Dalek. Sharon Small is well-known for her long running role as DS Barbara Havers in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, and Trudy Malloy in the BBC drama Mistresses. 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. 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.
