DUCHESS THEATRE

Catherine Street, London, WC2B 5LA

BUTLEY

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Dominic West stars as the rapier wit, Ben Butley, in this classic Simon Gray comedy.

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Rapier-tongued lecturer Ben Butley is having a monumentally bad day. So bad, he’s making sure everyone else has a worse one.

His estranged wife has taken up with the most boring man in London. His beloved protégé has found a new benefactor (one he is actually sleeping with, to boot). In an unprecedented act of betrayal even the English department’s resident failure has a book deal.

Once a charismatic tutor and an authority on T. S. Eliot, he now sharpens his mind on his unfortunate colleagues while trying to evade his more persistent students.

Mischievous irony and gleeful trouble-making all feature in his arsenal; inevitably they prove to be the weapons of his own tragic self-destruction.

Dates

Previews from: 1 June 2011
Opening night: 6 June 2011
Closing night: 27 August 2011

Audience

Butley is suitable for audiences aged 12 and upwards.

Run time

2 hours 30 minutes with an interval.

Show times

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 Matinee---3:00-3:00-
 Evening7:307:307:307:307:307:30-

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