Category: Bush Theatre
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Theatre ticket prices for West End plays and musicals have gone up and up, but there is more to London’s theatre scene – and cheaper options for getting your stagey fix. I call them off-West End theatres. They aren’t far from the centre of London but deliver quality productions with ticket prices that are more…
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You should always listen to your mum; that’s the lesson from the spooky rom-com The Hungry Ghost, which is Mei Leng Yew’s debut play. British Chinese ‘Girl’ (Mei Mac) is excited and nervous to be moving in with her Scottish girlfriend, Naomi, except she hasn’t told her parents. In a rush to leave, she ignores…
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A happy childhood in a play is like having a Chekhov’s gun: you are waiting for it to go off, for something to go wrong and Darkling at the Bush Theatre is no different. I confess I knew nothing of Bhopal, where the play is set, and so my thoughts were going in all different…
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Tender is getting a second outing this time in the Bush Theatre’s larger space and is a play about a chance encounter that develops into something more. The encounter is between two women who are living with not wholly comfortable relationships. Ivy (Nadi Kemp-Sayfi) is living with her pushy boyfriend and has an equally pushy…
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I’m Not Being Funny at the Bush Theatre is a play which at one point has you laughing at Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On and then later crying during the same song. It is a bittersweet story of a young couple with a 3-year-old child, forced to face a future no one wants…
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Heart Wall at the Bush Theatre starts as the audience arrives with a karaoke. Pub manager Valentine (Aaron Anthony) encourages people to come onto the stage to sing. The auditorium is lively, some singing along to the popular anthems, waving arms, and I’m sure tapping toes. As the popular pop songs fade, we meet Franky…
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It feels like theatre returned with a splash in 2023 after the dark days of Covid. I saw 62 and a half plays (64 and a half, including second viewings) across London's plethora of theatres, from tiny pubs to big West End stages. Here are my favourite 10 plays – in no particular order (links…
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Samuel Barnett in 'Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen' at Bush Theatre. Photo: The Other Richard Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen at the Bush Theatre is the sad clown paradox. The Comedian (Samuel Barnett) tries (and succeeds) to make people laugh while simultaneously suffering from anxiety…
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The Bush Young Company in As We Face The Sun at the Bush Theatre. Photo by Harry Elletso As We Face The Sun at the Bush Theatre is part coming-of-age drama, part exploration of the impact of grief on a group of school friends. The story centres on a group of 14/15-year-old classmates at a…
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Fair Play at the Bush Theatre is set in the world of female athletics. Ann (NicK King) joins a running club and meets Sophie (Charlotte Beaumont), and the two bond over their love of running, drive and ambition to compete at the highest level. L-r NicK King and Charlotte Beaumont in 'Fair Play' at Bush…