Boys From The Blackstuff

“Gi’s a job” quickly became a comedy catchphrase in the early 1980s, when things in the UK were almost as grim as they are now. And that’s just one thing that makes this acclaimed adaptation of Alan Bleasdale, from James Graham, is a WhatsOnStage Award-nominated production. We were suffering an economic crisis back then, and it’s even worse now. Based on Bleasdale’s legendary TV series, the show is directed by Kate Wasserberg and the cast is pure TV royalty. Following runs at Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre and the National’s Olivier Theatre, it lands at the West End’s Garrick Theatre for a strictly limited eight week season for summer 2024. Expect black comedy, gallows humour, and plenty of hilarity.

The cast includes George Caple (Doctor Who, a member of the Liverpool Everyman Rep company), Dominic Carter (Coronation Street, Game of Thrones, The Responder, Around the World in 80 Days, Crossfire) Helen Carter (The Flint Street Nativity, Top Girls), Aron Julius (Death on the Nile, Death in Paradise, DCI Banks) and Nathan McMullen (Doctor Who Christmas Special, Misfits, Wagatha Christie: Rooney v Vardy) along with Mark Womack (The Responder, Emmerdale, Hillsborough, Sorted, Murphy’s Law, Liverpool 1) and Lauren O’Neil (Witness for the Prosecution at London County Hall, This House, King Lear, Women Beware Women), Jamie Peacock (Masquerade), Barry Sloane (The Bay, Litvinenko, Revenge, Hollyoaks, Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem), and Liam Tobin (Then and Now, member of the Liverpool Everyman Rep company).