2.3.10

Jerusalem at The Apollo Theatre



Jerusalem was brilliant. Mark Rylance as Rooster Byron, about to be evicted from his caravan is amazing to watch in this whopping 3 hour play. The stage alone is a master piece sporting a full crop of trees! Here's how someone proper describes it... "Much of the greatness of Rylance's performance lies in the way he captures the twin aspects of Byron's character. He tells of meeting giants on the A14 with the relish of a natural charmer, and swaggers about his ­woodland grove like a dispossessed monarch. Yet Rylance also conveys the inner solitude of the public performer: he seems shy with his young son and even with the teenage May queen he protectively shelters." (Michael Billington in The Guardian)