Jez Butterworth

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 25 January 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Jez Butterworth is a veteran of both stage and screen, he's written about a dozen films along with his seven plays. You can see the wisdom that only experience can bring in action during "The Ferryman," his latest play that's now on Broadway. A younger playwright might have the same grand vision as Butterworth did for the production, but would they have the finesse and thoughtfulness to make it work? "The Ferryman" will be running in New York until July 7th and if you're in a position to do it, go see it!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:07.0	Hey all, it's Jesse, the host of Bullseye with Jesse Thorn. Maybe you have heard of me.
0:14.7	Quick announcement, we're really excited to share it with you. We're going to be doing
0:17.7	a very special live episode of Bullseye. It's going to be Friday, February 15th at Revolution
0:24.5	Hall in Portland, Oregon. What are you going to see? If you go to Portland, Oregon to see
0:29.3	this show, you will see me live on stage talking with folks like Corrin Tucker from Slater
0:33.7	Kinney, director Lance Bangs, writer Bill Oakley, Simpson's legend. We will also have live
0:39.6	music from Roseblood and live comedy from Katie Wen is going to be a blast and a half.
0:45.7	It's also part of a big podcast festival called Listen Up Portland. Tons of other great
0:49.4	podcasts are playing at it to our pals with the doughboys among others. So again, that's
0:54.0	Friday, February 15th at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon. 7pm tickets are on sale
0:59.6	now. Get them at ListenUpPortland.com. And thanks. I'm Jesse Thorn. It's Bullseye.
1:07.0	Jesse Butterworth's latest play is on Broadway right now. It's his seventh called The Fairie
1:18.5	Men. It's set during the troubles. The decades-long conflict over Northern Ireland that killed
1:23.8	thousands. It tells the story of the Carney family who lived there in Derry. Authorities
1:29.9	have just found the body of Shamist Carney who's been missing for almost a decade. We find
1:35.2	out early on that Shamist was killed by the IRA and the family is now left to deal with
1:40.3	the fallout of that event. The play is unique in a lot of ways. At one point, there are
1:46.0	21 actors on stage at the same time. One of them is an infant. You'll also see a live
1:51.5	goose and a live rabbit. And I mean, it's remarkable. It's a visceral, unusual theatrical
1:58.7	experience. Behind all that, though, the story shines through. It's about trauma and
2:03.1	loss and revenge and all the other consequences people encounter when they try to live their
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