Enron is at the Noel Coward Theatre in London. PA Wire / Press Association Images

Butterworth is a prolific writer; another work, Parlour Song, only made its debut in London in March last year, to positive reviews, but it has already been overshadowed by the acclaim doled out to Jerusalem, which opened at the Royal Court in July and won Best Play and Best Actor at last years Evening Standard Awards. Mark Rylance won the latter, for his performance as the hellraiser Johnny Rooster Byron, a Romany pied piper figure who spices up his rural caravan-dwelling existence by throwing raves for local kids, guzzling drugs and telling tall stories.

It has clearly paid off, from the looks of whats on offer at the beginning of 2010, but the uncertainty makes it even more imperative that anyone visiting London in the near future make the most of this current crop of exciting new work.

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