Jerusalem
Paperback, 128 pages ISBN: 9781848420502Publication Date:
9 Jul 2009
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
A4 Spiral-bound, 256 pages ISBN: 9781839041815Publication Date:
9 Jul 2009
Size: 297mm x 210mm£14.99 £11.99You save £3.00 (20%)
Ebook, 128 pages ISBN: 9781780010151Publication Date:
15 Apr 2012
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
First Staged:
Royal Court Theatre, London, 2009

Jerusalem

By Jez Butterworth

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A4 Spiral-bound £14.99£11.99

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  • Best New Play, Critics' Circle Awards
  • Best New Play, WhatsOnStage Awards
  • Best Play, Evening Standard Awards - 2009

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 alcohol.

Jerusalem premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in July 2009 in a production directed by Ian Rickson and starring Mark Rylance. It transferred to the Apollo Theatre in the West End in January 2010, and played on Broadway in 2011.

Jez Butterworth's play won the Evening Standard Best Play Award and the Critics Circle and Whatsonstage.com awards for Best New Play.

Jerusalem is also available in the collection Jez Butterworth Plays: Two.


A4 Edition also available

This play is also available as an A4 Edition, offering spiral binding, a larger print size and additional space for notes. To order the play in this format, simply select the 'A4 Spiral-bound' option above. Please note A4 Editions are only available for delivery within the UK.

Press Quotes

'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)
Paperback,128 pages ISBN: 9781848420502Publication Date:
9 Jul 2009
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
A4 Spiral-bound,256 pages ISBN: 9781839041815Publication Date:
9 Jul 2009
Size: 297mm x 210mm£14.99 £11.99You save £3.00 (20%)
Ebook,128 pages ISBN: 9781780010151Publication Date:
15 Apr 2012
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)

Also by Jez Butterworth:

The Winterling
Jez Butterworth Plays: Two
The Ferryman
The Night Heron
Parlour Song
Jez Butterworth Plays: One
The River
The Hills of California
The Clear Road Ahead
Leavings
Mojo
The Naked Eye

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