Jez Butterworth's Open Weekend Q&A: 'Mark Rylance saw something I'd not seen in Jerusalem'

I was half-expecting a 'Rooster' Byron-style hellraiser. Instead, the playwright treated us to reflections on theatre full of modesty and dry humourAfter a week or so living inside the world of Jez Butterworth – which includes such things as suicide in a lonely East Anglian village, a suburban marriage subsiding like a collapsed building, a tense standoff on Dartmoor with jet fighters howling overhead, not to mention a body sawn in two and stored in rubbish bins – it was a relief finally to ...

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