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“An instant modern classic” – Daily Telegraph
“One of the most exciting new plays in ages” – New York Times
“Jez Butterowrth’s gorgeous, expansive new play keeps coming at its audience in unpredictable gusts, rolling from comic to furious, from winsome to bawdy” – Observer
A Comic, contemporary vision of rural life in England’s green and pleasant land.
On the morning of the local county fair, Johnny Byron is a wanted man. Local officials want to serve him an eviction notice, his son wants his full attention, and his motley crew of friends wants his ample supply of booze…
After its 2009 premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, Jerusalem won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play in 2009 and transferred to the West End in 2010. It opened on Broadway in April 2011 at the Music Box Theatre, with Mark Rylance reprising his award-winning performance as Byron.
Jez Butterworth is the author of The River, Mojo, The Night Heron, The Winterling, Parlour Song and Jerusalem. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Somerset, England.
- Sales Rank: #436513 in Books
- Published on: 2011-06-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.75" h x 5.00" w x .50" l, .30 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 96 pages
Review
“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
About the Author
Plays include Mojo, The Night Heron, The Winterling and Jerusalem. Mojo, The Night Heron and Parlour Song have been produced in New York in acclaimed productions at Atlantic Theater Company. He has written and directed two films: Mojo (1998) and Birthday Girl (2002). In 2009 he wrote and produced Fair Game. In 2014 he co-wrote the screenplays for Edge of Tomorrow and Get on Up. He is writing the screenplay for London Calling, about the British punk rock band, the Clash. He has won two Evening Standard Awards and Olivier, Critics’ Circle, Writers’ Guild and George Devine Awards. In 2007, he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Masterful At All Levels - and there are many
By David Wineberg
Jerusalem is about many things, from the hard partying gang that hangs about Rooster's rickety Airstream trailer, to the sadness of the discrimination against Romanys - Gitanes - Gypsies - of which he turns out to be one. Condemned to making money as a daredevil in his youth and a blood donor in middle age, Rooster is determined to live large - while the local town does its utmost to boot him out. In between, we are treated to the magic of central England, the fairies and giants and mystical beings that inhabit the woods and glens that for centuries have provided our legends. From Robin Hood to hobbits to Shrek, this setting is as fertile as they come, and author Jez Butterworth milks it to its fullest.
The first two acts are riotously funny, setting us up for the dismal fall, which is obvious from the beginning - this can't last. And it doesn't. But along the way we are treated to Rooster's intelligence, his understanding of the way things work, and his role in them. It's a remarkable story of coping and survival in a hostile environment, buried in a haze of gin and marijuana, as anybody in his situation might descend to. To that point, Jerusalem is highly believable. This could (and of course has been) going on in real life. Only the wonderfully involved massive and mammoth lies that Rooster spins are obviously made up. He has made himself into one of the great legends of the woods, remaining Rooster while generation after generation of teenagers in search of something more hang out for a while and move on.
A delightfully complex story, though readers don't have to get all this from reading it. As a straight story it is highly entertaining. But make no mistake, there is a masterpiece lurking in these pages.
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Into the woods for merriment and things fantastical
By Kindle Customer
Ribald best characterizes the high jinks in "Jerusalem," playwright Jazz Butterworth's outlandish poke at contemporary life in the merry modern, English countryside.
In "Jerusalem" everything, it seems, gets reduced to something hilariously sexual in a rude, irreverent way. Ribald is a Middle English word and seeing a production of "Jerusalem" must be similar to what the 15th century English townsfolk experienced listening to "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" and other of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." Chaucer and Butterworth both offer a lusty, outlandish and sometimes over-the-top version of life as lived in rural England, old and new.
Here's how main character Johnny "Rooster" Byron recounts the fantastical story of his virgin conception, which is the result of an encounter involving his roving father Hector and a lass not his mother plus Hector's jealous wife, also not Johnny's mother:
The deed occurs when Hector's wife "pulls a pistol, draws a bead and shoots the wayward lad (Hector) slam-bang in the love bells. The bullet passes clean through his scrotum bounces off the bedpost, zings out the window, down the high street to the crossroads, where it hits the number 87 tram to Andover. The bullet passes through two inches of rusty metal, clean through an elderly lady's packed lunch and lodges in my sweet mother's sixteen-year-old womb. Eight months, three weeks, six days later. Out pops him. Smiling with a bullet clenched between his teeth."
His new-born self, Johnny tells us, is different from everyone else in that like all Byron boys, he arrived on this woebegone earth with teeth, "thirty-two chompers," and also hair on his chest. And there you have it. And that's only the very beginning of Johnny Byron's colorful story.
"Jerusalem' begins at midnight in Rooster's Woods, a dot on the map of England somewhere on the Salisbury Plain on St. George's Day. The site, somewhere vaguely near Stonehenge, is Johnny Byron's illegal encampment. The nearby town officials want to see the camp bulldozed after 27 years of not collecting taxes and putting up with all sorts of complaints from residents of nearby Flintlock, 80 percent of whom has taken the time to protest Byron's bad influence and continuing vile presence in their midst.
We'll know by day's end how the camp's leader and his band of mates and hangers-on will respond to the threat to their world order.
Johnny Byron isn't called "Rooster" for nothing. He preens and prances. He scratches about. Often his words are poetry, Byronic. His bluff and bravado are extreme, Shakespearian. At times we feel as if were in Shakespeare's forest on a Midsummer's Eve and Johnny is leading his group of mechanicals.
Byron rants, and fueled often by drugs and booze, he rages against anyone and anything that differs from his word view. Kneeling, he clasps his young son Marky and instructs him, "School is a lie. Prison's a waste of time. Girls are wondrous. Grab your fill. No man has ever lain in his barrow wishing he'd loved one less woman."
All this is to say that "Jerusalem" is a rollicking read, a hilarious comedy that rushes at you with wit and dark slashes of universal insight into the ways things are and moreover the way they ought to be.
English actor Mark Rylance (who grew up in Milwaukee, Wis. where he attended a private preparatory school where his father taught) won acclaim and London theater awards for his portrayal of Johnny Byron when the play opened in 2009. Rylance is bringing Byron to Broadway in April 2011.
Early on, one of Byron's mates Ginger regrets not taking part in one of the group's all-night revels, "Well, that's that. I've missed a party. That's one I'll never get back." On the page, "Jerusalem" conjures up a fully realized universe of contemporary human experience. Read the play in paperback and you'll feel compelled to see Johnny Bryon's extraordinary world brought to life on the stage. Not seeing the play performed after reading the paperback would be, like Ginger says, missing a party, one you'll never get back.
[4.5 stars]
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Masterful at all levels - and there are many
By David Wineberg
Jerusalem is about many things, from the hard partying gang that hangs about Rooster's rickety Airstream trailer, to the sadness of the discrimination against Romanys - Gitanes - Gypsies - of which he turns out to be one. Condemned to making money as a daredevil in his youth and a blood donor in middle age, Rooster is determined to live large - while the local town does its utmost to boot him out. In between, we are treated to the magic of central England, the fairies and giants and mystical beings that inhabit the woods and glens that for centuries have provided our legends. From Robin Hood to hobbits to Shrek, this setting is as fertile as they come, and author Jez Butterworth milks it to its fullest.
The first two acts are riotously funny, setting us up for the dismal fall, which is obvious from the beginning - this can't last. And it doesn't. But along the way we are treated to Rooster's intelligence, his understanding of the way things work, and his role in them. It's a remarkable story of coping and survival in a hostile environment, buried in a haze of gin and marijuana, as anybody in his situation might descend to. To that point, Jerusalem is highly believable. This could (and of course has been) going on in real life. Only the wonderfully involved massive and mammoth lies that Rooster spins are obviously made up. He has made himself into one of the great legends of the woods, remaining Rooster while generation after generation of teenagers in search of something more hang out for a while and move on.
A delightfully complex story, though readers don't have to get all this from reading it. As a straight story it is highly entertaining. But make no mistake, there is a masterpiece lurking in these pages.
David Wineberg
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