Jerusalem: Jez Butterworth on Real Life Inspirations, Creative Instinct & The Myth of Rural England
4/7/20261 hr 2 min
For April, Dua has chosen Service95’s first play: Jerusalem by award-winning British playwright Jez Butterworth. He’s widely regarded as one of the leading voices in contemporary theatre – with this conversation with Dua showing exactly what that reputation is built on.
Here, Dua and Jez trace the creative forces behind Jerusalem, which unfolds across a single day in a fictional rural English village and centres on the anarchic Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron as he resists eviction from the woodland clearing he calls home.
The conversation begins with the real figures and encounters that shaped the play’s characters, before turning to Jez’s instinc...
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Dua Lipa· Host0:56
Welcome back to the Service ninety-five Book Club, and today we're doing something a little bit different, where instead of a novel, we're going to be talking about a play. I've been obsessed with Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth ever since I studied it at school, long, long, long before I saw it on the stage. The dialogue leaps off the page and transports you right into the English woods where we meet the legendary lord of misrule, Johnny Rooster Byron. Join us as we go deep on what is perhaps the most iconic play of the twenty-first century. We first meet him when he's, like, mixing this hangover smoothie of sour milk and eggs and