Mark Rylance mesmerised audiences with his Olivier Award-winning turn as visionary layabout Rooster Byron in Jerusalem. Now, he’s playing a boozy ne’er-do-well of a more old-fashioned sort in Irish playwright Sean O’Casey’s 1924 classic,

Among Mark Rylance’s qualities as an actor is, it transpires, the ability to convey a man utterly stupefied by drink. As Jack Boyle – the feckless Paycock of Seán O’Casey’s 1924 comic melodrama – he stumbles into the crumbling Dublin apartment he shares with his wife,

In part, this is thanks to the play itself, written in 1924, and perhaps the most difficult of the author’s “Dublin Trilogy” to stage, thanks to its combustible mixture of comedy and tragedy. But Warchus has chosen to exacerbate its problems, turning the comedic elements into vaudeville farce and tipping the conclusion into portentous solemnity.

Cameron stars as Juno Boyle opposite Mark Rylance as ‘Captain’ Jack Boyle in a highly anticipated new production of Juno and the Paycock, Seán O’Casey's timeless masterpiece, directed by Tony and Olivier award-winner Matthew Warchus.

Succession star J. Smith-Cameron is splendid - 3/5 Despite the actress’s great performance, Sean O’Casey’s tragicomedy has dated badly and the production plays it strangely like a black-and-white slap