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Jez Butterworth
The latest work from acclaimed playwright Jez Butterworth, The Hills of California is a generational drama that rifles through decades of one family's past.
Blackpool, 1976. The driest summer in…
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The Webb Sisters are returning to their mother's run-down guest house in Blackpool, in a play by the author of Jerusalem and The Ferryman, premiered in the West End in…
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Four full-length plays and two previously unpublished shorts from the multi-award-winning author of Jerusalem.
Three extraordinary plays by one of the most audacious and talented playwrights of our times: Jerusalem, The River and The Ferryman. Plus his short film The Clear Road Ahead, and…
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Jez Butterworth is the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful new British dramatist of the 21st century: his acclaimed play Jerusalem has had extended runs in the West End and…
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A dark, funny, spellbinding play about a group of outcasts and eccentrics gathered in the Cambridgeshire fens.
Two couples live side by side in identical houses. On the outside Ned is a confident demolitions expert: on the inside he’s a mess. He is the victim of increasingly…
A comedy thriller from the author of the Olivier Award-winning Jerusalem.
A remote cabin on the cliffs, a man and a woman, and a moonless night. At dawn I went back to the river, and I took off my clothes and…
A play from the author of Mojo . On St George’s Day, the morning of the local county fair, Johnny Byron, local waster and modern day Pied Piper, is a…
Winner of Best Play, 2009 Evening Standard Awards, Best New Play, Critics Circle Awards, and Best New Play, Whatsonstage.com Awards.
A bewitching new play from the award-winning author of Broadway hit Jerusalem.
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A widely anticipated new drama from the award-winning playwright of Jerusalem.
The cult hit first seen at the Royal Court, a slick and violent black comedy set in the Soho clubland of the 1950s. The hit debut play from the author…
Rural Derry, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of hard work on the land and a traditional night of…
First collection of plays by the author of Jerusalem and the award-winning Mojo.
Sean McEvoy
Tracing the development of Butterworth’s work chronologically from Mojo (1995) to The Ferryman (2017), each chapter offers detailed critical readings of a single play, exploring how myth and legend become…
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