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Why did Olivier Award winner Jethro Compton turn down Hollywood for Korean zombie musical?

 01/03/2026 1 Views
Why did Olivier Award winner Jethro Compton turn down Hollywood for Korean zombie musical?



A year after his work The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won the 2025 Laurence Olivier Award for best new musical, Jethro Compton has big Hollywood studios calling to ask for meetings. He declines them all.

Instead, the British writer and director is working as dramaturge on an English adaptation of The Last Man, a South Korean one-person zombie musical set in a tiny bunker – and the last project most people would expect from the hottest name in West End theatre.

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