The Hills of California - West End Tickets, News, Info & More
*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’s fractious family of singing sisters
6 / 10
There are lovely bits nonetheless including effervescent verbal riffs and snatches of song, although sentimentality and nostalgia soften the edges. Butterworth is reaching for the epic and there is a characteristic daring in that ambition but Rob Howell’s gorgeous set, dominated by a beautiful staircase, has heights and depths that the play itself does not reach.
The Hills of California review
10 / 10
Like Beth Steel’s terrific Till the Stars Come Down, which has just opened at London’s National Theatre, Butterworth’s piece is an elegiac, female-led family drama. Set in Blackpool during the 1976 heatwave, it’s beautifully layered. Days, nights and decades ebb and flow like the waves licking the gaudy Pleasure Beach, as the Webb sisters revisit the starry-eyed showbiz might-have-beens of their childhood – aspirations nurtured by their ambitious mother, who is now dying. In a pitch-perfect production from Sam Mendes, it is devastatingly moving, bitterly funny, tender, cruel and wise: a piercing reminder that all the paths we choose lead ultimately in only one direction – and time, like life, is short.
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Review Roundup: Jez Butterworth's THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA
by Nicole Rosky - February 9, 2024
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!
Photos: First Look at THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA at the Harold Pinter Theatre
by Stephi Wild - February 8, 2024
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!
Review: THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA, Harold Pinter Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 9, 2024
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.
Photos: Inside Rehearsal For Jez Butterworth's THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA
by Stephi Wild - January 24, 2024
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!
Laura Donnelly, Leanne Best, Ophelia Lovibond, and Helena Wilson Will Lead THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA
by Stephi Wild - November 17, 2023
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.
The Hills of California FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How long has The Hills of California been running on the West End?
The Hills of California opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre on Tuesday Feb 06, 2024 and has now been running for 2 months.
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