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JEZ BUTTERWORTH (1970 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Creative Artists Agency CA |
I truly believe that it's possible to wake up one morning and write something that changes everything. At any age, at any time, you can write from the imagination.' Jez Butterworth's playwriting debut, Mojo, was staged at the Royal Court in 1995, and was acclaimed as 'one of the most dazzling Royal Court main stage debuts in years' (Time Out). Since then his plays have been premiered at the Royal Court, at the Almeida Theatre and at the Atlantic Theater in New York. Jerusalem ran for two hit seasons in the West End, as well as on Broadway. His films include Birthday Girl, Fair Game and an adaptation of Mojo.
Plays by Jez Butterworth
Huge | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | 20 Oct 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54486 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Jez Butterworth, Ben Miller and Simon Godley | |||||
Synopsis: | Warren and Clark are a double act, scrubbing around in a kitsch bedsit on the wrong side of fame. They tap away at typewriters, trying to top each other. Each has differing notions of "Huge", which they unravel in hallucianatory passages of jarring poetic beauty. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XIII (1993) Page 1196; Theatre Record Vol XXVI (2006) Page 0444 | |||||
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I Believe in Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | 26 Mar 1992 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5577 | |||
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Genre: | four short plays | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Jez Butterworth and James Harding. Four Short Plays | |||||
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Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XII (1992) Page 0376 | |||||
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Jerusalem | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Jul 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781848420502 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91932 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | performing rights, contact http://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk | |||||
| "My dad said he jumped buses. Horseboxes. Jumped an aqueduct once. He was gonna jump Stonehenge but the council put a stop to it." On St George's Day, the morning of the local county fair, Johnny Byron, local waster and modern day Pied Piper, is a wanted man. The council officials want to serve him an eviction notice, his children want their dad to take them to the fair, Troy Whitworth wants to give him a serious kicking and a motley crew of mates want his ample supply of drugs and alcohol. A comic, contemporary vision of life in our green and pleasant land | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXIX (2009) Page 0767; Theatre Record Vol XXX (2010) Page 0122; Theatre Record Vol XXXI (2011) Page 1128 | |||||
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Leavings | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 Jun 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Jez Butterworth Plays: One, Nick Hern Books, London (2011) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848422261 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135184 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of the 10 x 20 season | |||||
| an old man. Ken, and his dog | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mojo | ||
| 1st Produced: | 18 Jul 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854593665 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5578 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Silver Johnny is the new singing sensation, straight out of a low-life Soho clubland bar in 1958. His success could be the big break for two dead-end workers in the bar, if they play their cards right and trust the owner of the place to make a good deal with the local money mogul. Before they can dream what to do with all the money they'll make, the owner turns up dead, Silver Johnny disappears, the second in command takes over the bar and power positions are juggled about. Going through the uppers and downers filched from pocketbooks, and trying to keep a lid on the precocious anger of the dead owner's son, the band of losers figures out the law of the streets and who killed the boss, but not in time to save one of their own, and perhaps their souls. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XV (1995) Page 0954; Theatre Record Vol XVI (1996) Page 1316; Theatre Record Vol XVII (1997) Page 1672; Theatre Record Vol XIX (1999) Page 0868; Theatre Record Vol XXVI (2006) Page 0326 | |||||
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Naked Eye, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Jun 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Jez Butterworth Plays: One, Nick Hern Books, London (2011) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848422261 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135183 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of the 10 x 20 season | |||||
| Halley's Comet and a small child | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Night Heron, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Apr 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854596994 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5579 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| The sighting of a rare bird attracts attention to a remote part of the Fens. The visiting birdwatchers cannot know what dangers lie in the freezing darkness of the marshes. In an isolated cabin, Wattmore, bruised and bleeding, is recording the Old Testament onto cassette. Griffin arrives with fish and chips. Salvation is at hand - a cash prize for winning the university poetry competition, plus the arrival of a potential lodger. Meanwhile, the local townsfolk are stirring. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXII (2002) Page 0478 | |||||
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Parlour Song | ||
| 1st Produced: | 15 Feb 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781848420267 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #80801 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Almeida Theatre, London, 26 Mar 2009 | |||||
| Jez Butterworth takes on domestic paranoia in his inimitably sly and incisive style in Parlour Song, which explores what happens when two ordinary people discover they hate who they have become. Butterworth reveals a world where all is not what it seems, when a demolitions expert suspects his wife is stealing from him | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXIX (2009) Page 0336 | |||||
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Winterling, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Mar 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854599261 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48471 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Thriller Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| "I like London. I like pavements. I like to walk out the door and not sink up to my tits in primordial sludge. I don't like trenchfoot. I don't like sheep. I don't like the country. It's covered in shit." | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXXI (2011) Page 0567 | |||||
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