Jez Butterworth
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446 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Apr
Jez Butterworth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I just have to keep it in both spaces believably.
So like a great song that you can never work out the meaning of, I think the second you can sort of reduce it and calculate what the answer is, it's sort of, you'll leave it behind.
So I think I sort of worked out that there was a way to keep these things in the soul of the audience after they've left.
If these questions were...
powerfully suggested in equal and opposite areas.
So I've always found it – there was a lot of debate in the papers when it came out.
It was like, yeah, it's interesting, but you wouldn't want to live next door to him.
And that really made me laugh because it's like as if that is the job of a dramatic character, as if Medea's task is to be your neighbour.
Yeah.
You know, it's not the point.
It's not the point.
They're supposed to be a neighbour in your soul and they're supposed to haunt your imagination rather than be on the other side of a fence.
Now, of course, it's probably not tremendous fun to live next door to Rooster Byron, but maybe it is.
That whole idea came out of a conversation with Mark.
I went round the director Ian Rickson's house to talk to Mark.
It was only one of three conversations that we had before he did the play.
And he was wearing a T-shirt that had a spiral on it.
And I said, what's the spiral about?
And he started talking about turners, like dervishes who turn and go in ever decreasing circles.
And he started talking about the story of George and the dragon and the idea that the
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