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: Sensational performances in Jez Butterworth's latest play
8 / 10
It’s a long play at approximately three hours, with only a pause between Acts 2 and 3. Yet the time flies as it’s so engrossing, not just because of the glorious dialogue but also some of the best performances across a whole West End cast we’ve seen in recent years. The standout by a mile is Laura Donnelly who embodies the daughters’ strict mother in the 1950s flashbacks, before just as convincingly playing a very different character later on.
The Hills of California review – four sisters soar in new Jez Butterworth play
8 / 10
Line by line, scene by scene, The Hills of California holds the attention. It’s possibly only because of the exalted standards expected of Butterworth that somehow it remains an interesting evening rather than a revelatory one.
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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