The Bob Dylan jukebox musical Girl From The North Country is going to be available to stream in the UK next week.
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Written by Conor McPherson, the play is set in a guesthouse in Dylan’s hometown of Duluth, Minnesota during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and sees its characters struggle against racism, dementia, alcoholism and poverty.
It features music spanning Dylan’s career, including songs like ‘All Along The Watchtower’, ‘Like A Rolling Stone’, ‘Hurricane’, ‘I Want You’, ‘Make You Feel My Love’, and, of course, ‘Girl From The North Country’.
The tracks are adapted for the stage with orchestrations by the award-winning composer Simon Hale, who has worked with artists including Björk, Jamiroquai and Sam Smith.
A performance of the musical filmed at New York’s Belasco Theatre will be available to watch exclusively on Marquee TV, a global streaming platform for the performing arts, from June 1. A new production of the show will also debut in London’s Old Vic theatre for a limited time from June 24.
Dylan is currently on the road with his ongoing ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ tour, which runs until September, as well as playing a number of shows in the 2025 instalment of the ‘Outlaw Music Festival’ Tour alongside Willie Nelson, Billy Strings and others. Get your tickets here.
This Girl From The North Country news comes after the release of James Mangold’s Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown earlier this year, which starred Timothée Chalamet as the legendary musician.
NME gave the biopic a four-star review, with Alex Flood writing: “The most important (and often trickiest) job of any music movie is to get the music right. And this nails that. If you’re a Bob newbie, you’ll leave the cinema ready to dive into his back catalogue. If you’re already a fan, the next few weeks will be spent making playlists of lesser-known B-sides or reading the lore around a scene you weren’t familiar with. And that’s why it was a good idea to make this film – a mad idea, but a good one.”
Speaking about the importance of committing himself to the character, Chalamet then told NME in January that he was willing to work as long as possible to get the character and musical performances right in the biopic.
“I had the time to put the 10,000 hours in, which in a three-month, four-month period you really can’t… There wasn’t a deadline on it,” he said. “I wasn’t learning for anyone else. I was learning for myself.