Mark Rosenblatt’s new play *Giant*, starring Tony winner John Lithgow, will transfer to the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre next year, following a run at the Royal Court this September. The play will run from 26 April 2025 – 2 August 2025.

Directed by Nicholas Hytner (*[Guys & Dolls](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/25504-guys-and-dolls-tickets), Straight Line Crazy, La Belle Sauvage*) and designed by Bob Crowley, the play follows the acclaimed children's author Roald Dahl over the course...

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UPDATE:&nbsp;Jerusalem&nbsp;starring Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook will open at the Apollo Theatre in April 2022. <a href="/theatre-news/news/mark-rylance-and-mackenzie-crook-to-star-in-jerusalem-west-end-revival">Find out more about&nbsp;Jerusalem&nbsp;in London here</a>.Sonia Friedman has used social media to tease that Jez Butterworth's play <a href="/show/jerusalem">Jerusalem </a>is set to return to London next year.Directed by Ian Rickson, the play premiered at the <a href="/theatres/royal-court">Royal Court</a> in 2009, and starred Mark Rylance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron, a wanted man who is being searched for by the council while his son wants to take him to the local fair, local gangsters want to kick his head in, and his mates are after his stash.Opening to rave reviews, the play transferred to the <a href="/show/apollo-theatre">Apollo Theatre</a> in 2010, and Mark Rylance went on to win the Olivier Award for best actor, followed by the Tony Award for best actor in a play after the production opened on Broadway the following year.Rylance returned to the role once again in the West End in 2011, but the play has not returned since.Now, on St George's Day, on which the play is set, Sonia Friedman announced the play, directed by Rickson and starring Rylance, will return in 2021.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Rooster's ready! See You Next Year... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Jerusalem?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Jerusalem</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HappyStGeorgesDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HappyStGeorgesDay</a> <a href="https://t.co/k093E3DXbY">pic.twitter.com/k093E3DXbY</a>— Sonia Friedman Productions (@SFP_London) <a href="https://twitter.com/SFP_London/status/1253262372099194883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2020</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>A venue, dates and ticketing details are yet to be announced for the revival.

Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem to return to London in 2021 with Mark Rylance

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The Rooster returns to London. Jez Butterworth’s heralded play *Jerusalem* returns to the West End with its original stars, Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook, and in its original staging by director Ian Rickson. Set an alert for *Jerusalem* tickets in London on TodayTix.

Johnny “Rooster” Byron (Mark Rylance) lives in a caravan in the woods. Council officials are trying to serve him an eviction notice, but never seem to find him home. Nor does his young son, who wants Roster to join him at the county fair. Or Troy Whitworth, who is after revenge. Rooster has evaded them all for as long as he can, but his time may finally be up. 

Jez Butterworth’s *Jerusalem* play was greeted with universal acclaim upon its premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in 2009. Time Out described it as “a state-of-the-nation play which is a pastoral comedy” and “an edgy piece of new writing,” while The Guardian declared that “the triumph belongs to Rylance for perfectly embodying Butterworth's vision of a vanished demonic magic.”

*Jerusalem* transferred to the Apollo Theatre on the West End in 2010 and then to the Music Box Theatre on Broadway in 2011, before finally returning to the West End for a second run following its New York success. Now this enduring and beloved work is back on the West End once again.

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## What to Watch For

- Mark Rylance won both the Laurence Olivier Award and the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his work in *Jerusalem* as Rooster.
- Returning co-star Mackenzie Crook received Olivier and Tony nominations for his performance as Ginger.
- The *Jerusalem* West End run returns to the same theatre where it played twice in 2010 and 2011, the Apollo.
- *Jerusalem* is often considered to be one of the best plays of all time. In 2019, The Independent described Jerusalem as “the greatest British play of the century.”
- Jez Butterworth was most recently represented on the West End with his hit play *The Ferryman*, which played the Gielgud Theatre in 2017.

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The Rooster is back. Ian Rickson's acclaimed production of Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem returns to London's West End for a limited run, with original stars <a href="/actor-profile/mark-rylance">Mark Rylance</a> and <a href="/actor-profile/mackenzie-crook">Mackenzie Crook</a> reprising their roles.&nbsp;Jerusalem&nbsp;tickets will be available on London Theatre soon.Johnny "Rooster" Byron is a wanted man. Local council officials want to serve him an eviction notice, his friends want his ample supply of alcohol and drugs, his son wants to take him to the county fair, and Troy Whitworth wants to settle a score. It's a lot for one man, living out in the woods in a caravan, to handle. How does The Rooster do it?&nbsp;Jerusalem first premiered at the <a href="/theatres/royal-court-theatre">Royal Court Theatre</a> in 2009, in the downstairs Jerwood Theatre. Butterworth's play was an instant sell-out sensation and received critical acclaim. Rickson's production quickly transferred to the West End in 2010, then to Broadway in 2011, and then to the West End again later in 2011. Rylance and Crook played Johnny "Rooster" Byron and Ginger respectively in all four productions. The pair now return to those two legendary roles.&nbsp;Jerusalem was showered with awards upon its initial staging. Rylance won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Play, and the play was nominated for six Olivier Awards overall. The following year, Rylance won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, and Jerusalem again received six nominations total. The Independent described the play in a 2019 article as "the greatest British play of the century."Jerusalem returns to London's West End twelve years after its premiere as the continued reigning champion of British theatrical drama. The Rooster is back at it again.&nbsp;

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A modern classic returns to the West End. For a strictly limited run, Mark Rylance returns to his iconic role in one the most well-received plays of the 2000s. 
Rooster Byron’s caravan life is under assault on all sides. It’s a portrait of modern Britain that remains as timely as when it premiered. 
Don’t miss your chance to see the strictly limited run of *Jerusalem* at the Apollo Theatre.

Jez Butterworth’s 2009 tragicomedy [*Jerusalem*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/23938-jerusalem "Jerusalem"), starring Mark Rylance as Johnny “Rooster” Byron, has long been heralded as among the greatest plays of the decade, if not century. So, does this feverishly anticipated revival – once again led by Rylance and Mackenzie Crook as sidekick Ginger, and directed by Ian Rickson – cement its place in theatre history? In short: hell yes. 

Like all great state-of-the-nation epics, it feels different, but just as potent, in this new context. It can certainly be read as a Brexit play, with Rooster’s group of rural, working-class misfits clinging to a fantasy version of a past England. Davy, who works in the local abattoir, boasts that his ears pop if he even leaves Wiltshire, and sniffs that BBC Points West is now in thrall to Belgium. But it reaches further than one referendum: it’s an empathetic exploration of the outsider, and of our national myth-making.

Most importantly, Rylance’s titanic performance as the gypsy Rooster really is one for the ages. His entrance is spectacular: he bursts out of his Airstream trailer in the woods, tattooed, sunburnt and limping, barrel chest puffed out, and skips into a handstand over the water trough. He then retrieves an egg from his squawking chickens, chucks the shell into the audience, mixes up a hangover cure with milk, vodka and speed, and downs it in one – to rapturous applause.

It immediately establishes Rooster the showman. He used to be a motorcycle daredevil and now has a captive audience of disaffected young people who come to buy drugs, party at his Bacchanalian raves, and hear his outlandish stories. Those tales work their rough magic on us too: the one about his birth to a virgin mother via a stray bullet, or his meeting with the giant who built Stonehenge on the A14, “about half a mile past the Little Chef.”

That mix of the mystical and the mundane, with very specific local references and idioms, is key to Butterworth’s filthily funny and utterly beguiling drama, which all takes place on St George’s Day, as the local town of Flintock holds its annual fair. His characters can wax lyrical about the historic May pastoral revels or powerful ley lines one minute, and in the next laugh over Rooster drunkenly smashing up his TV. 

Rylance’s twinkling-eyed host has a rebellious, libertarian spirit, which again chimes with some of our current debates. He despises the new estate built nearby, and is at war with the bureaucracy. Kennet and Avon Council, represented by two po-faced council workers in yellow vests with clipboards, are determined to evict him, but Rooster claims an ancient ownership to this land that runs much deeper than permits and petitions.

Is he a hero or a menace? He claims that these kids would otherwise be in worse danger, hanging out at bus stops or, in the case of the missing Phaedra, left at the mercy of her thuggish stepfather. But I felt far more unease this time around at seeing underage girls getting high with older men, particularly given Rooster’s casually misogynist (and occasionally racist) language. Butterworth’s writing of the female characters is weaker too, and he slots them into confining boxes: the innocent nymph, the pushy tramp and the joyless mum.

Yet, as the mood darkens, Butterworth does interrogate his magnetic protagonist. Rooster’s anarchic behaviour is far less entertaining when he’s neglecting his young son and letting his ex down – or, worse, tempting her with cocaine. He gradually becomes a pathetic figure as we learn that his waifs and strays actually make fun of him, and that he’s been repeating this same pattern with each new generation for decades. Nothing ever changes.

What at first seems like a paean to tradition then curdles into tragic stasis. Everyone is trapped in jobs or lives they hate, including Ginger, unemployed plasterer and wannabe DJ. Crook playing him older is even more effective, since he’s expressing adolescent dreams as a weary grown man. He and Rylance have built up a remarkable dynamic: co-dependency laced with both affection and needling nastiness.

There’s great support also from Gerard Horan as publican and reluctant Morris dancer Wesley, Alan David as the befuddled Professor, and, playing the wistful songbird Phaedra, Eleanor Worthington-Cox (who, when *Jerusalem* last stormed the West End, was starring as one of the original [Matildas](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/305-matilda-the-musical "Matilda the Musical")). 

Ultz’s detailed once again set mixes natural beauty, given a golden hue by Mimi Jordan Smith’s ethereal lighting, with mouldering rubbish. Wild and whimsical, uproarious and desolate, Butterworth’s play is still a mighty force of irrepressible live theatre. 

[*Jerusalem is at the Apollo Theatre to 7 August.*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/23938-jerusalem "Jerusalem")

*Photo credit: Mark Rylance (Photo by Simon Annand)*

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The Apollo Theatre opened on 21 Feb. 1901. The theatre is named after the Greek god of the arts, and was built to house musical theatre productions.

The late 20th-century saw many plays at the Apollo Theatre, including *Separate Tables* starring John Mills, *Mrs Klein* starring [Zoe Wanamaker](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/actor-profile/zoe-wanamaker), and *A Madhouse in God* starring [Vanessa Redgrave](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/actor-profile/vanessa-redgrave).

During a performance of the Olivier Award winning play [*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time) on 19 Dec. 2013, a large section of the ceiling collapsed, potentially caused by the heavy rain London had experienced that week, and 88 people were injured. 

Recent shows at the Apollo Theatre include *Jerusalem* starring Mark Rylance, and the West End premiere of *Everybody's Talking About Jamie.*

## Apollo Theatre Seating Information

The auditorium has three levels – Stalls, Dress Circle and Grand Circle. The Stalls seats offer excellent views of the stage. Views in the outer seats are hindered by the overhang of the Dress Circle.

The Dress Circle seats may offer little legroom and little raking in the seating. The last two rows of seats sit on a higher level and offer better views than those in front.

The Grand Circle has a shallow ranke. The last two rows of seats are also built up higher.

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