JEZ BUTTERWORTH (1970 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Jez Butterworth
Huge |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/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. Benjamin Davis, Time Out, London | ||||
I Believe in Love |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Jez Butterworth and James Harding. Four Short Plays | ||||
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Mojo |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 1995 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: 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. | ||||
Night Heron, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: 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. . . | ||||
Parlour Song |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: 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 - press release | ||||
Winterling, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 2006 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Comedy Thriller | Thriller | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: "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." West waits in a burnt-out farmhouse, on Dartmoor, in the depths of winter, for two associates from the city. The wine has been poured and the revolver loaded. But who is waiting upstairs? | ||||