Tickets: £17
Concessions: £13

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Presented by Next Stage Theatre Company

Tuesday 21st - Saturday 25th January 2025, 7:30pm

Matinee Saturday 25th January 2025, 2:00pm

Next Stage’s acclaimed 2012 production of Jez Butterworth’s award-winning smash hit is back at The Mission Theatre for the venue’s 20th Birthday week.

It’s St George’s Day, the morning of the local county fair; Johnny “Rooster” Byron, local waster and modern-day Pied Piper, is a wanted man embattled in the Wessex woodland. Facing eviction from his dilapidated mobile home, plying his friends with drink and drugs, ducking and weaving to avoid outraged neighbours, Rooster has little time to enjoy the annual pageant.

Jez Butterworth’s comic, contemporary vision of life in “England’s green and pleasant land” is compelling theatre. Jerusalem gives voice to the dispossessed and the disaffected in the person of Rooster Byron - a shockingly familiar, modern-day Everyman, played in this production by highly-acclaimed actor Richard Chivers.

When Next Stage last produced Jerusalem the critics said:

“Don't miss this – even if you do have to queue all night for a ticket”
Bath Chronicle

“A startling coup ...highly recommended” - International Press

“Superb! Visceral and poetic, lusty and bucolic… the set couldn’t be more lifelike and immersive.” - Venue

WARNING: this play can shock. It contains strong language and adult themes