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Brash British playwright Jez Butterworth’s “The Hills of California,” a Chekhovian drama with a modern edge about the vigil variously embittered sisters are holding for their dying mother, who unsuccessfully groomed them for showbiz glory.

Jan Butterworth wants the choice to end her life.

Based on a French series, “Le Bureau,” and set largely in London, it has been “created for American television” by Jez Butterworth, a Tony-winning British playwright, and his brother John-Henry Butterworth, who earlier collaborated on the screenplays for “Ford v Ferrari,” the James Brown biopic “Get on Up” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”

Hauntingly staged by Mendes, who won a Tony for his direction of Butterworth’s “The Ferryman,” “The Hills of California” switches between two time periods.

Butterworth may be the most acclaimed English dramatist of his generation.