Jerusalem
$25.03
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2009
Summary
Jez Butterworth’s hugely acclaimed, prize-winning play - a comic, contemporary vision of life in England’s green and pleasant land.
On St George’s Day, the morning of the local country fair, Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron, local waster and Lord of Misrule, is a wanted man. The council officials want to serve him an eviction notice, his son wants to be taken to the fair, a vengeful father wants to give him a serious kicking, and a motley crew of mates wants his ample supply of drugs and alcoho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848420502 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1848420501 |
| Author: | Jez Butterworth |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 132g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘Unarguably one of the best dramas of the twenty-first century’
‘Unarguably one of the best dramas of the twenty-first century’
* Guardian *‘Tender, touching, and blessed with both a ribald humour and a haunting sense of the mystery of things… one of the must-see events of the summer’
* Telegraph *‘Jez Butterworth’s gorgeous, expansive new play keeps coming at its audience in unpredictable gusts, rolling from comic to furious, from winsome to bawdy’
* Observer *‘Storming… restores one’s faith in the power of theatre’
* Independent *‘Show of the year’
* Time Out *‘Arguably the best play of the 21st century so far, a work whose importance and resonance has only increased since its premiere in 2009’
* Whatsonstage (in January 2022) *Jez Butterworth
Jez Butterworth is one of the UK’s leading playwrights. His plays include:
- Mojo (Royal Court Theatre, London, 1995; West End, 2013)
- The Night Heron (Royal Court, 2002)
- The Winterling (Royal Court, 2006)
- Parlour Song (Atlantic Theater, New York, 2008; Almeida Theatre, London, 2009)
- Jerusalem (Royal Court, 2009; West End, 2010; New York, 2011)
- The River (Royal Court, 2012)
- The Ferryman (Royal Court and West End, 2017)
- The Hills of California (West End, 2024)
Mojo won the George Devine Award, the Olivier Award for Best Comedy and the Writers’ Guild, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard Awards for Most Promising Playwright. Jerusalem won the Best Play Award at the Critics’ Circle, Evening Standard and WhatsOnStage.com Awards, and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. The Ferryman won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play, and the Critics’ Circle, Olivier and WhatsOnStage Awards for Best New Play, as well as the 2019 Tony Award for Best Play.
His screenwriting credits include Fair Game (2010), Get On Up (2014), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Black Mass (2015), Spectre (2015), Ford v Ferrari (2019), and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023).
For TV, he created and wrote the comedy series Mammals for Amazon Studios, and created the historical fantasy drama Britannia for Sky and Amazon Prime.
In 2007, he won the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2019 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Author photo by Steve Schofield
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