Mackenzie Crook cast in Royal Court's Jerusalem

Mackenzie Crook cast in Royal Court's Jerusalem

Mackenzie Crook and Gerard Horan to join previously mentioned Mark Rylance, in Jerusalem, a new play by Jez Butterworth, which opens at the Royal Court Downstairs 15 July 2009, following previews from 10 July - running to 15 Aug 2009.

Directed by Ian Rickson, designed by Ultz, sound by Ian Dickinson.

On St George's Day, the morning of the local county fair, Johnny Byron, local waster and modern day Pied Piper, is a wanted man. The council officials want to serve him an eviction notice, his children want their dad to take them to the fair, Troy Whitworth wants to give him a serious kicking and a motley crew of mates want his ample supply of drugs and alcohol.

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Joining previously mentioned Jane Horrocks in Aunt Dan and Lemon by Wallace Shawn, directed by Dominic Cooke from 20 May to 27 June, is Lorraine Ashbourne, Paul Chahidi, Rebecca Faulkenberry, Holly Goss, Scarlett Johnson, Ryan McCluskey, Martin McDougall, Nathan Osgood, Mary Roscoe, Trevor White, Rene Zagger. We all remember a favourite aunty, uncle or grandparent, someone who, in our childhood, told us tales that made our toes curl and stories of wonder. For Lemon, it was Aunt Dan. A brilliant, intoxicating but dangerous woman who shared all the most intimate and daring secrets of her decadent, exotic adult world...

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