Arts Over Borders 2018 Brochure

JEz BuTTErWOrTH
I n C O n v E r S AT I O n
An grianán Theatre, Letterkenny
Saturday 18 August, 2pm
Tickets: €10
JEZ BUTTERWORTH HAD ALREADY established himself as one of his
generation’s leading playwrights when his play Jerusalem, starring Mark
Rylance, premiered in London in 2009. The play, a bold, exuberant, stateof-the-nation
comedy about modern-day Pied Piper Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron,
won a clutch of awards and catapulted Butterworth to international fame.
His latest play, The Ferryman, a gripping family drama set in an Armagh
farmhouse in 1981, has been just as rapturously received. In an exclusive
Irish appearance for Lughnasa FrielFest Jez Butterworth talks about his
passion for Friel’s work and the challenges of writing plays, from dialogue
to engaging with the Troubles.
‘a playwright without equal’
The Guardian
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