Walking Shadow Presents MOJO Through 2/27

Mojo makes its Regional Premiere, runs through February 27, 2010. When teen heartthrob Silver Johnny hits the scene, the lower tier workers at a lower tier club think they've discovered the next big thing. But when their boss brings him to the attention of a local gangster, their luck quickly sours in a fast-paced mix of vulgarity and wit, distilled in the energy, humor, and music of 1950s London.

An Olivier Award winning comedy!, directed by Amy Rummenie featuring Mark Benzel, Joey Ford, Ryan Parker Knox, Andrew Kohagen, Skyler Nowinski, & Anthony Sarnicki.

Production team
Ron Albert, Cody Braudt, Logan Jambik, Mike Hallenbeck,
Sarah Holmberg, Lucinda Holshue, Steve Kath, Jennifer Probst, Renata Shaffer-Gottschalk & Tracy Vacura.

Red Eye Theater
15 West 14th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55403

Jez Butterworth is a London playwright and filmmaker whose work is characterized by its distinctive language, dark comedic themes, and lowlife characters. His work has frequently been compared to that of his mentor - playwright Harold Pinter - and to the films of Guy Ritchie.

His breakthrough success came in 1995 with the Royal Court's premiere of Mojo, which won the Laurence Olivier Award, an Evening Standard Award and the George Devine Award. Butterworth told The Guardian that he was inspired by "that historical moment: rock'n'roll landing like a spaceship on postwar, just-out-of-rationing Britain."

Butterworth's other plays include The Night Heron (2002), The Winterling (2006), Parlour Song (2008), The River (2009), and Jerusalem (2009) - which featured Mark Rylance and received a Critics Circle Award. Walking Shadow's production of Mojo marks the first of Butterworth's plays to be produced in Minnesota.