Jerusalem

Jez Butterworth

A man in a caravan versus the council on St George's Day, carrying an argument about England.

Jez Butterworth’s play sets Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron, a former daredevil living in a caravan in a Wiltshire wood, against the council trying to evict him on St George’s Day. It became a landmark of modern British theatre by making one unrepentant man carry an argument about England, myth and who gets to belong to it.

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Dua Lipa

Singer-songwriter and founder of Service95

I first read Jerusalem at 15, studying for my English GCSEs, and Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron has stayed with me ever since. When I finally saw legendary actor Mark Rylance perform the role onstage in 2022, it was everything I had imagined.

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