Scaramouche Jones

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A brilliant new one-man show starring Pete Postlethwaite

It's 11pm on Millennium Eve. The ancient clown, Scaramouche Jones, has given his last performance and retires to his dressing room to wait alone for the stroke of midnight - and his own centenary.

Reflecting on the extraordinary fortunes of his life, his journey spans the furthest reaches of crumbling empires and the darkest episodes of the 20th century in his quest for a father and a homeland. He strips away his seven comic masks and reveals the heart buried deep within: his final confession.

By turns bizarre, comic, epic, tragic - laced with the consummate wit of the circus clown - his tale unfolds as an enchanting fable of poignancy and laughter.

"Powerful, imaginative and marvellously written ... an extraordinary and original creation" - Sir Paul Scofield

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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).