About Butley

Butley the Musical is a revival of Simon Gray’s award-winning comedy which is a portrait of a burned-out academic. Butley follows the story of rapier-tongued lecturer Ben Butley who is having a monumentally bad day. So bad, he’s doing everything he can to make sure everyone else around him has a worse one. He is now estranged from his wife who has taken up with the most boring man in London, his beloved protégé has found a new benefactor and in an unprecedented act of betrayal even the English department’s resident failure has a book deal.

Butley was once a charismatic tutor and an authority on T. S. Eliot, who now sharpens his mind on his unfortunate colleagues while trying to avoid his more persistent students. Withering irony, spite and gleeful trouble-making all feature in his arsenal; inevitably they may prove to be the weapons of his own tragic self-destruction.

Dominic West, from the US drama The Wire, will star as Butley in Butley the musical.

Please note cast members can not be guaranteed for every performance.

Perfromance Times for Butley the musical are as follows:

Evenings: Monday to Saturday at 19:30

Matinees Thursday and Saturday at 15.00.

Butley Theatre Breaks always includes tickets with hotel accommodation, and the number of tickets you request must be the same as the number of hotel guests.