Written in 1995,
Jez Butterworth’s Mojo is often
credited with reviving the urban gangster genre, typified in Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking
Barrels. Now almost twenty years old, the play has lost none of its
youthful exuberance and swagger, its rock’n’roll charm and its classic downward
spiral of a revenge thriller-tragedy. Presented here by Sydney Theatre Company,
Mojo is the story of a
group of would-be teddy-boy petty criminals in 1950s London , with the stars of fame, fortune and success
firmly in their eyes.