The River (NHB Modern Plays Book 0)

The River (NHB Modern Plays Book 0)

<div><p>A bewitching play by Jez Butterworth, author of the global smash-hit <I>Jerusalem</I>. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2012.</p> <p>On a moonless night in August when the sea trout are ready to run, a man brings his new girlfriend to the remote family cabin where he has come for the fly-fishing since he was a boy. But she's not the only woman he has brought here – or indeed the last...</p> <p>'A delicately unfolding puzzle... all of it is wrapped in marvelous language... extraordinary.' <I>The Times</I></p> <p>'One of the best productions of the year... a magnetically eerie, luminously beautiful psychodrama.' <I>Time Out</I></p> <p>'Strange, eerie, tense... Butterworth possesses a singular talent.' <I>Guardian</I></p></div>