Bob Dylan musical ‘Woman From The North Nation’ is obtainable to stream within the UK subsequent week

The Bob Dylan jukebox musical Woman From The North Nation goes to be obtainable to stream within the UK subsequent week.

Written by Conor McPherson, the play is ready in a guesthouse in Dylan’s hometown of Duluth, Minnesota through the Nice Melancholy of the Thirties, and sees its characters battle towards racism, dementia, alcoholism and poverty.

It options music spanning Dylan’s profession, together with songs like ‘All Alongside The Watchtower’, ‘Like A Rolling Stone’, ‘Hurricane’, ‘I Need You’, ‘Make You Really feel My Love’, and, after all, ‘Woman From The North Nation’.

The tracks are tailored for the stage with orchestrations by the award-winning composer Simon Hale, who has labored with artists together with Björk, Jamiroquai and Sam Smith.

A efficiency of the musical filmed at New York’s Belasco Theatre will probably be obtainable to look at solely on Marquee TV, a worldwide streaming platform for the performing arts, from June 1. A brand new manufacturing of the present may also debut in London’s Previous Vic theatre for a restricted time from June 24.

Dylan is at the moment on the highway together with his ongoing ‘Tough And Rowdy Methods’ tour, which runs till September, in addition to taking part in quite a few exhibits within the 2025 instalment of the ‘Outlaw Music Pageant’ Tour alongside Willie Nelson, Billy Strings and others. Get your tickets here.

This Woman From The North Nation information comes after the discharge of James Mangold’s Dylan biopic A Full Unknown earlier this 12 months, which starred Timothée Chalamet because the legendary musician.

NME gave the biopic a four-star evaluation, with Alex Flood writing: “A very powerful (and infrequently trickiest) job of any music film is to get the music proper. And this nails that. Should you’re a Bob beginner, you’ll depart the cinema able to dive into his again catalogue. Should you’re already a fan, the following few weeks will probably be spent making playlists of lesser-known B-sides or studying the lore round a scene you weren’t aware of. And that’s why it was a good suggestion to make this movie – a mad concept, however an excellent one.”

Talking concerning the significance of committing himself to the character, Chalamet then instructed NME in January that he was prepared to work so long as attainable to get the character and musical performances proper within the biopic.

“I had the time to place the ten,000 hours in, which in a three-month, four-month interval you actually can’t… There wasn’t a deadline on it,” he mentioned. “I wasn’t studying for anybody else. I used to be studying for myself.