How working with Weinstein haunted playwright Jez Butterworth and inspired his work

Highly anticipated new play is a post-#MeToo story about trials women endure to realise their dreams

He has built a reputation as one of Britain’s most revered modern playwrights, but Jez Butterworth’s career in film has evidently inspired the subjects he is now willing to take on.

The dramatist was 29 when he worked with the disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein on the 2001 erotic thriller, Birthday Girl, and it is clear the experience has continued to haunt him.