Written in 2009, Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem is ‘in part a lament about the erosion of country life and in part a rebuff to the antiseptic modern world’. The play tells a day in the life of Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron -  an unruly and elusive former daredevil who lives in ‘Rooster’s Wood’, on the edge of the fictional Wiltshre town of Flintock. In it, Butterworth challenges the concept of ‘English-ness’, celebrates the outsider and provides a contemporary vision of rural life.  Butterworth’s play is funny (an inherent English sense of humour, you could say), nostalgic, and wildly original.

 

Cast:

 

Josh Finan - Johnny 'Rooster' Byron
Mayer Wakefield - Ginger
Tom Lodge - Wesley
Will Taylor - Professor
Katherine Farquhar - Phaedra
Callum Tipton - Lee
Perry Hughes - Davey
Thalia Caddy - Pea
Imogen Davies - Tanya
Alex Monks - Troy Whitworth
Bliss Hunter - Dawn
Sam Allan - Marky
Sian Baxter - Ms Fawcett
Nat Kershaw - Mr Parsons

 

Crew:

 

Jack Burkhill - Director

Lisa Maguire - Producer

Justine Adams - Stage Manager