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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.

A bewitching story from the author of global smash hit Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth's play The River was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in October 2012.



Trade Review

'Bewitchingly strange - watery and wild but deftly crafted'

* Evening Standard *

'Strange, eerie, tense... Butterworth possesses a singular talent'

* Guardian *

'Teasing, haunting and hushed... this subtle, troubling piece is likely to nag away in the memory'

* Telegraph *

'As taut as a wire and as tense as a thriller'

* Whatsonstage.com *

'One of the best productions of the year... a magnetically eerie, luminously beautiful psychodrama'

* Time Out *

'A delicately unfolding puzzle... all of it is wrapped in marvellous language... extraordinary'

* The Times *

The River

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      Publisher Nick Hern Books
      Published 18 October 2012
      ISBN-13 9781848422896
      978-1848422896
      ISBN-10 184842289X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

      A bewitching story from the author of global smash hit Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth's play The River was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in October 2012.



      Trade Review

      'Bewitchingly strange - watery and wild but deftly crafted'

      * Evening Standard *

      'Strange, eerie, tense... Butterworth possesses a singular talent'

      * Guardian *

      'Teasing, haunting and hushed... this subtle, troubling piece is likely to nag away in the memory'

      * Telegraph *

      'As taut as a wire and as tense as a thriller'

      * Whatsonstage.com *

      'One of the best productions of the year... a magnetically eerie, luminously beautiful psychodrama'

      * Time Out *

      'A delicately unfolding puzzle... all of it is wrapped in marvellous language... extraordinary'

      * The Times *

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