Jerusalem
Event Date: 21/08/2013, 07:30 pm
New Theatre presents the Australian premiere of the award-winning London and Broadway hit.
New Theatre presents the Australian premiere of the award-winning London and Broadway hit.
On the morning of St George's Day in a remote corner of rural Wiltshire, Johnny 'Rooster' Byron (a drug-dealing, trance music-loving 'gyppo' who has vodka and cocaine for breakfast) is a wanted man.
The council wants to evict him from his caravan in the woods, his kid wants to be taken to the county fair, his arch-enemy wants to give him a serious beating, and an assortment of hangers-on and no-hopers wants his ample supply of drugs and alcohol.
Jez Butterworth's bold and exuberant play is a comic and anarchic vision of contemporary England's green and pleasant land: a lament on the disintegration of rural communities, the sterility of modern life and the pervasive excesses of the 'nanny state'.
Fast and furious, hysterically funny and more than a touch disturbing, JERUSALEM has been praised as one of the great plays to come out of the UK in the past decade and 'Rooster' regarded as one of the most startlingly original characters to hit the stage.
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New Theatre, Kings Street,
Newtown New South Wales,2042
New Theatre, Kings Street,
Newtown New South Wales,2042