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Justin Butcher is a playwright whose Scaramouch Jones or The Seven White Masks, starring Pete Postlethwaite premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2001. Butcher read Classics at Oxford, and trained subsequently at Drama Studio London. He has worked extensively as an actor, writer, director and musician all over Europe. Plays include King of Fools (commissioned by Westminster Abbey in 1995, it had five successful UK tours); Birth of the Jongleur (a one-man show commissioned for the Greenbelt Arts Festival, 1995); The Millennium Man, a modern adaptation of the Mysteries (Theatre Royal, Bath, 2000); Guantanamo Baywatch (New Players, 2004) and Go to Gaza, Drink the Sea (Theatro Technis, 2009). |
