Synopsis
Jez Butterworth Plays 1 - Mojo & The Night Heron & The Winterling & Parlour Song & More
Published by Nick Hern Books
Jez Butterworth, one of the most successful and critically acclaimed playwrights of his generation
The Collection includes Mojo & The Night Heron & The Winterling & Parlour Song
And two previously unpublished one-man shorts - Leavings & The Naked Eye
It also includes an interview with the author The Olivier award winning Mojo is a sly and vicious black comedy set in 1950s Soho clubland
The Night Heron is a funny, sad, haunting, and strangely beautiful play about a group of outcasts gathered in the Cambridgeshire fens
The Winterling is a menacing comedy thriller about a group of misfits waiting out the winter on a moor in Southern England
And Parlour Song is an hilarious investigation of cunning, paranoia, and treacherous desire
"Combines the verbal menace of Harold Pinter and the physical violence of Quentin Tarantino" ~ The Sunday Times on Mojo
"Testosterone taut, a sense of menace invades every conversation ... the black comedy never misses" ~ Time Out on The Winterling
"Flashes with jokes, shines with images and oozes menacing bonhomie." The Tribune on Parlour Song