Why I love Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem
The chewy language, the characters' sad bombast and above all the sense of place: England. This play is a chronicle of us, nowThe Jerusalem we have seen so widely feted " from the West End to Broadway and back again, isn't the Jerusalem Jez Butterworth first began. Earlier attempts to "write something that concerned Englishness" were, he told Radio 4 recently, "stuffed birds … they wouldn't fly." It took a little d…