Mojo

Author: Jez Butterworth
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822216612
Category : Rock musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
THE STORY: 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

Plays

Author: Jez Butterworth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848422261
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 317

Book Description
Four full-length plays and two previously unpublished shorts from the multi-award-winning author of Jerusalem. Jez Butterworth burst onto the theatre scene aged twenty-five with Mojo, ‘one of the most dazzling Royal Court main stage debuts in years’ (Time Out). This first volume of his Collected Plays contains that play plus the three that followed, as well as two short one-person pieces published here for the first time – everything in fact that precedes Jerusalem, ‘unarguably one of the best dramas of the twenty-first century’ (Guardian). Plays One includes: Mojo The Night Heron The Winterling Leavings (previously unpublished) Parlour Song The Naked Eye (previously unpublished) Introducing the plays is an interview with Jez Butterworth specially conducted for this volume.

Jerusalem

Author: Jez Butterworth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559364089
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Winner of Best Play, 2009 Evening Standard Awards, Best New Play, Critics Circle Awards, and Best New Play, Whatsonstage.com Awards.

Mojo and Other Plays

Author: Jez Butterworth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559364188
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
First collection of plays by the author of Jerusalem and the award-winning Mojo.

The Ferryman

Author: Jez Butterworth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559365666
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A widely anticipated new drama from the award-winning playwright of Jerusalem.

The Winterling

Author: Jez Butterworth
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854599261
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
"One of the most dazzling Royal Court debut in years" -Time Out London

The Night Heron

Author: Jez Butterworth
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854596994
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 94

Book Description
Butterworth has a way with words. It's this capacity which makes his jet-black comedy such a fresh pleasure to hear and see.--Evening Standard

The River

Author: Jez Butterworth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559364881
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A bewitching new play from the award-winning author of Broadway hit Jerusalem.

Parlour Song

Author: Jez Butterworth
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
A new play by award-winning stage and screen writer, premiered by the mega-successful Almeida Theatre.

Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth

Author: Sean McEvoy
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303062711X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work comes from a reinvigoration of traditional forms of tragedy expressed in a theatricalized working-class language. Butterworth’s most developed tragedies invoke myth and legend as a figurative resistance to the flat and crushing instrumentalism of contemporary British political and economic culture. In doing so they summon older, resonant narratives which are both popular and high-cultural in order to address present cultural crises in a language and in a form which possess wide appeal. 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 significant in a variety of ways to Butterworth’s presentation of cultural and personal crisis.