Category: Bush Theatre
-
Last year a critic described a dramatic response to the Black Lives Matter protests, to which Benedict Lombe contributed, as 'more lecture than theatre'. The quote is projected onto the set of her debut play, Lava, at the Bush Theatre. Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo in 'Lava' at the Bush Theatre. Photo credit: Helen Murray It appears about…
-
Travis Alabanza's play Overflow is set in the toilet of a club from where transgirl Rosie (Reece Lyons) has locked herself in. Overflow, Bush Theatre. Photography by Elise Rose. Art direction by Mia Maxwell She talks about the power of a 'pre-emptive pee' but it isn't just about being organised enough to empty your bladder…
-
It is the women that come to the fore and feel like the more interesting and sympathetic characters. Rakie Ayola as Vivian in 'Strange Fruit', Bush Theatre. Photo: Helen Murray. Caryl Phillips' play Strange Fruit focuses on cultural identity in 1980s Britain. Vivian (Rakie Ayola) left the Caribbean with her two young sons Errol and…
-
Class layers marital tensions with social class tensions and the pressures of being a teacher and learning. L-r Sarah Morris, Stephen Jones and Will O'Connell in 'CLASS'. Photo: Helen Murray Brian (Stephen Jones) and Donna (Sarah Morris) are separated but having to put on a united front for the sake of their 9-year-old son Jayden…
-
Tessa Peake-Jones and Andrew French in While We're Here at thenew Bush Studio. Photo: Mark Douet Carol (Tessa Peake-Jones) is making up the sofa in her Havant home for Eddie (Andrew French) to sleep on. A chance meeting has thrown the former lovers together; they've not seen each other for 20 years and he's got…
-
Darren Kuppan and Danny Ashok in Guards at the Taj at the Bush Theatre. Photo: Marc Brenner. Director Jamie Lloyd has moved on from dark dystopian Philip Ridley plays performed in the basement at Shoreditch Town Hall to something that is arguably even darker but set in 17th century India. Guards at the Taj, at…
-
Harry Melling and Mark Arends in Angry Brigade at the Bush Theatre. Photo Manuel Harlan Saw The Angry Brigade at the Watford Palace Theatre last Autumn and it's found it's way to the Bush Theatre with Harry Melling returning and three new actors taking the other parts. It's the story of Britain's answer to the…
-
Amelia Lowdell in Incognito. Photo by Bill Knight. The title of Nick Payne's latest play (gosh he's prolific) gives a hint of its themes primarily the hidden self. Incognito is an exploration of the sense of self, whether through our own perceptions, relationships or straightforward biology and whether it is truthful. There are…
-
Have always admired Rory Kinnear as an actor – his Iago is currently stealing the show in the National Theatre’s production of Othello. He’s also admired by those important theatre biz people who hand out awards having had two Evening Standard's, an Olivier and an Ian Charleson bestowed on him in recent years. But what’s…
-
Cush Jumbo's debut play is as bold and brave as its titular character: Josephine Baker. It is also bold and brave in that it is a one woman show, performed by Cush who also lays herself bare with some scenes that draw on her own life experiences. As the unnamed 'I' she plays an actress…