Woody Harrelson returns to London stage in ‘riotous’ Ulster American

Woody Harrelson will play a hotshot American actor in David Ireland’s satire Ulster American. Photograph: Phil Mccarten/Reuters

Woody Harrelson is to return to the London stage in a new production of David Ireland’s controversial black comedy Ulster American this winter.

Harrelson will star as a hotshot American actor in the satire, with Lord of the Rings’ Andy Serkis playing an English theatre director and Derry Girls’ Louisa Harland taking the role of a playwright from Northern Ireland whose drama about a violent Protestant activist the trio are about to stage.