London, Nov 3 (PTI) Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes is will make a comeback to theatre for a new play "The Ferryman", which has been written by writer Jez Butterworth.
Butterworth, 47, who has worked with the 51-year-old filmmaker in "Spectre", said he is looking forward to work with him once again, reported Female First.
"It is a play about a family, where the past comes back into the present in a way that shows it was never really buried.
"It is set during the end of the hunger strike, but it is away from that urban setting of the hunger strike and set on a farm where the main preoccupation is bringing the harvest in.
It is looking at the notion of whether you care for the land with a capital L or a small l, and whether you take up the sword or the plough," he said.
The news came after Mendes said earlier this year that he would no longer be working on the Bond franchise following his two directorials "Skyfall" and "Spectre", which starred Daniel Craig as James Bond.
