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Book SynopsisOn 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 *
