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All About ‘Jerusalem’: Jez Butterworth Answers Your Questions

In this episode of the Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa, we’re passing the mic back to you. Dua put your questions to Jez Butterworth about her April Monthly Read, Jerusalem – and here, he answers them. Jez traces the play’s origins back to New Year’s Eve 2000, explains how it c ...  Show more

Jez Butterworth Reads The ‘Jerusalem’ Passage He Found Hardest To Write

For the April edition of the Service95 Book Club, Dua Lipa sits down with playwright Jez Butterworth to discuss his modern masterpiece, Jerusalem. If you’ve never read a play before, this is the place to start. With its raw, visceral portrait of myth, rebellion and a nation wrest ...  Show more

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