A blackly hilarious exploration of deceit, paranoia and murderous desire, as the spirit of the Blues lands in leafy suburbia.
Demolition expert Ned lives in a nice new house on a nice new estate on the edge of the English countryside. He loves his job. Barbecues. Car-boot sales. Fitness programmes. Outwardly his life is entirely unremarkable. Not unlike his friend and neighbour Dale.
So why has he not slept a wink in six months? Why is he so terrified of his attractive wife Joy? And why is it every time he leaves on business, something else goes missing from his home?
Jez Butterworth's play Parlour Song was first performed at the Atlantic Theater, New York, in Febraury 2008, before receiving its European premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, in March 2009.
'Blissfully funny... combines the comic, the erotic and the downright disconcerting with superb panache' - Telegraph
'Exactly captures the mundane madness beneath the bland routine of affluence' - Guardian
'Wickedly funny' - Financial Times
Show moreA blackly hilarious exploration of deceit, paranoia and murderous desire, as the spirit of the Blues lands in leafy suburbia.
Demolition expert Ned lives in a nice new house on a nice new estate on the edge of the English countryside. He loves his job. Barbecues. Car-boot sales. Fitness programmes. Outwardly his life is entirely unremarkable. Not unlike his friend and neighbour Dale.
So why has he not slept a wink in six months? Why is he so terrified of his attractive wife Joy? And why is it every time he leaves on business, something else goes missing from his home?
Jez Butterworth's play Parlour Song was first performed at the Atlantic Theater, New York, in Febraury 2008, before receiving its European premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, in March 2009.
'Blissfully funny... combines the comic, the erotic and the downright disconcerting with superb panache' - Telegraph
'Exactly captures the mundane madness beneath the bland routine of affluence' - Guardian
'Wickedly funny' - Financial Times
Show moreJez Butterworth is one of the UK's leading playwrights. His plays
include: Mojo (Royal Court Theatre, London, 1995; West End, 2013);
The Night Heron (Royal Court, 2002); The Winterling (Royal Court,
2006); Parlour Song (Atlantic Theater, New York, 2008; Almeida
Theatre, London, 2009); Jerusalem (Royal Court, 2009; West End,
2010; New York, 2011); The River (Royal Court, 2012); The Ferryman
(Royal Court and West End, 2017) and The Hills of California (West
End, 2024).
Mojo won the George Devine Award, the Olivier Award for Best Comedy
and the Writers' Guild, Critics' Circle and Evening Standard Awards
for Most Promising Playwright. Jerusalem won the Best Play Award at
the Critics' Circle, Evening Standard and WhatsOnStage.com Awards,
and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. The Ferryman
won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play, and the
Critics' Circle, Olivier and WhatsOnStage Awards for Best New Play,
as well as the 2019 Tony Award for Best Play.
His screenwriting credits include Fair Game (2010), Get On Up
(2014), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Black Mass (2015), Spectre (2015),
Ford v Ferrari (2019), and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
(2023).
For TV, he created and wrote the comedy series Mammals for Amazon
Studios, and created the historical fantasy drama Britannia for Sky
and Amazon Prime.
In 2007, he won the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters. In 2019 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Literature.
'Blissfully funny... combines the comic, the erotic and the
downright disconcerting with superb panache'
*Telegraph*
'Exactly captures the mundane madness beneath the bland routine of
affluence'
*Guardian*
'Wickedly funny'
*Financial Times*
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