An instant modern classic” Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
FOUR STARS: A welcome blast of bracing fresh air. Tender, touching, and blessed with both a ribald humour and a haunting sense of the mystery of things.” Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
FOUR STARS: Jerusalem is a bold, ebullient and often hilarious State-of-England or (almost) State-of-Olde-England play.” Benedict Nightingale, The Times
One of the most exciting new plays in ages.” Ben Brantley, New York Times
Magnificent
a great frame-busting play that still exists solidly within a conventional framework. Jerusalem could have been written in almost any year from the 1920s onward. Yet this work takes you places distant, out-of-time places that well-made plays seldom do. And it thinks big transcendently big in ways contemporary drama seldom dares.” Ben Brantley, New York Times
Jez Butterworth’s gorgeous expansive new play keeps coming at its audience in unpredictable gusts, rolling from comic to furious, from winsome to bawdy.” Susannah Clapp, The Observer
FIVE STARS: An invigorating, yelping, defiant portrait of 21st century shires England.” Quentin Letts, Daily Mail
FOUR STARS: A wonderful, rollicking, dark comedy about contemporary life in rural England.” Sarah Hemming, Financial Times
FIVE STARS: Hilarious and/or gripping throughout.” Caroline McGinn, Time Out London
Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem is one big, messy, exciting, long play.” Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
“An instant modern classic” – Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
FOUR STARS: “A welcome blast of bracing fresh air. Tender, touching, and blessed with both a ribald humour and a haunting sense of the mystery of things.” – Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
FOUR STARS: “Jerusalem is a bold, ebullient and often hilarious State-of-England or (almost) State-of-Olde-England play.” – Benedict Nightingale, The Times
“One of the most exciting new plays in ages.” – Ben Brantley, New York Times
“Magnificent… a great frame-busting play that still exists solidly within a conventional framework. Jerusalem could have been written in almost any year from the 1920s onward. Yet this work takes you places — distant, out-of-time places — that well-made plays seldom do. And it thinks big — transcendently big — in ways contemporary drama seldom dares.” – Ben Brantley, New York Times
“Jez Butterworth’s gorgeous expansive new play keeps coming at its audience in unpredictable gusts, rolling from comic to furious, from winsome to bawdy.” – Susannah Clapp, The Observer
FIVE STARS: “An invigorating, yelping, defiant portrait of 21st century shires England.” – Quentin Letts, Daily Mail
FOUR STARS: “A wonderful, rollicking, dark comedy about contemporary life in rural England.” – Sarah Hemming, Financial Times
FIVE STARS: “Hilarious and/or gripping throughout.” – Caroline McGinn, Time Out London
“Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem is one big, messy, exciting, long play.” – Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle