The Hills of California
The Hills of California - 2024 West End History , Info & More
Harold Pinter Theatre
Panton Street London SW1Y 4DN London
*This house. It’s called ‘Sea View’. It’s just I’ve looked out of every window, and you can’t. You can’t see the sea.*
Blackpool, 1976. The driest summer in 200 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.
Following their multi award-winning triumph *The Ferryman*, Jez Butterworth, writer of *Jerusalem*, resumes his partnership with Sam Mendes, director of *The Lehman Trilogy*, to bring you The Hills of California.
__*The Hills of California* plays at Harold Pinter Theatre from 27 January 2024 for a strictly limited season.__
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'The Hills of California' review — Jez Butterworth has created a new masterpiece
10 / 10
One of the most ingenious parts of Butterworth’s scripting is his ability to say more in the silences – and in what the characters fail to say – than in their actual conversations. There is a brief pause in the second act, which cleverly allows the audience a chance to digest what they have seen only moments before. A huge revelation explains why the Webb family has become so fractured, and the pregnant silence that follows is chilling.
Review: THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA, Harold Pinter Theatre
8 / 10
For most theatre-goers, Jez Butterworth’s work will always live in the shadow of Jerusalem. The Hills of California is no exception, which is a shame as it is close to greatness. It is thought-provoking, heartbreaking and multi-layered, but it could be exceptional.
by Nicole Rosky - February 9, 2024
Jez Butterworth’s new play, The Hills of California, just celebrated opening night and we've got the consensus from the critics!
by Stephi Wild - February 8, 2024
All new production photos have been released for Jez Butterworth’s new play, The Hills of California. Check out the photos here!
by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 9, 2024
Death comes to us all and the spectre of the end of life often brings families together who may not have met for years, even decades. Jez Butterworth’s bittersweet and bitingly funny new play, The Hills of California, draws both on this and how events are shaped by memory and by who remembers them.
by Stephi Wild - January 24, 2024
All new rehearsal photos have been released for Jez Butterworth’s new play, The Hills of California. Check out the photos here!
by Stephi Wild - November 17, 2023
Laura Donnelly (The Ferryman, The Nevers, Outlander), Leanne Best (Sweat, Ripper Street, Line of Duty), Ophelia Lovibond (Minx, W1A, The Effect) and Helena Wilson (Vogue World, Jack Absolute Flies Again, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern) lead the cast as the Webb family in Jez Butterworth's new play, The Hills of California.
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