Audiences will get another chance to see Jez Butterworth’s hit play Jerusalem in 2021, with Mark Rylance returning to his starring role.
Producer Sonia Friedman aptly chose St George’s Day to tease the news, posting a picture on Twitter announcing that the Flintock Fair, a county fair where the play is set on this day, would be coming back.
The revival of the acclaimed play will be directed by Ian Rickson, who directed the original production.
Jerusalem first opened at the Royal Court Theatre in 2009, starring Rylance and Mackenzie Crook, before transferring to the West End and receiving rave reviews for both productions.
Rylance and Butterworth both scooped Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Best Actor and Best Play, with the Standard’s review calling it a “deliciously wild vision of contemporary England – set in a threatened pocked of rural Wiltshire – [which] pulses with energy and poetry, and here seems imbued with an extra shot or three of pungent humour”.
The original run featured live chickens, a tortoise and goldfish, surrounding a caravan and real trees, created by set designer Ultz.
There’s no information yet about exactly where or when the play will be staged.
