theartsdesk Q&A: Playwright Jez Butterworth
Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem was one of those once-in-a-decade, trade-a-granny-for-a-ticket theatrical events, a swearing, sweating rave with firecracker dialogue hurled in. At the Royal Court, in the West End, on Broadway and back again, it featured Mark Rylance as Johnny Rooster Byron, drug-dealing oddjobber and roustabout under threat of expulsion from his own little English Eden, a ramshackle trailer in a pat…