The Hills of California

The latest work from acclaimed playwright Jez Butterworth, The Hills of California is a generational drama that rifles through decades of one family’s past.

Blackpool, 1976. The driest summer in two hundred years. The beaches are packed. The hotels are heaving. In the sweltering backstreets, far from the choc ices and donkey rides, the Webb Sisters are returning to their mother’s run-down guest house, as she lies dying upstairs.

Jez Butterworth is also the author of The Ferryman, Mojo, The Night Heron, The Winterling, Parlour Song and Jerusalem. His plays have premiered in London at the Royal Court Theatre and the Almeida Theatre and in New York City at the Atlantic Theater and on Broadway. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2019 Tony Award for Best Play. He lives in Somerset, England.