Coral Wylie’s Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew at the Bush Theatre: Tender And Original Debut About The Black Queer Experience
Diaries are dynamite — they hold secrets, and secrets can tear families apart. In Coral Wylie’s...
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Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini’s “Sleepova” at the Bush Theatre: Rather Predictable, but Fun Show about Coming of Age
Is anyone still nostalgic about their teen years? The coming-of-age drama is a staple of...
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“House of Ife,” Bush Theatre
In the past, most plays by black-British writers have been about the legacy of the Windrush...
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“Red Pitch”, Bush Theatre
Football stories are never just about a game — they are also about life and how to live it. In...
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About “Fair Play”
It’s a sign of the times that one of my last trips of the year, to Ella Road’s Fair Play at the...
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“Old Bridge”, Bush Theatre
Is the Bosnian conflict of 1992–95 the war that Europe forgot? Maybe, although most fans of new...
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Shahid Iqbal Khan’s “10 Nights” at the Bush Theatre: Moving Insight into Ritual and Belief
Since 9/11 there has been considerable interest in staging stories about British Muslims, and the...
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“Harm” at The Bush Theatre
After months (and months) of watching theatre on screens large, medium, small and tiny, I...
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“Sea Wall”: A Profound Performance By Andrew Scott
Lockdown occasionally spawns some real delights. Like the surprise appearance of a strange...
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“The Arrival” at The Bush Theatre
Family dramas are a staple of British new writing, but as well as talking about our nearest and...
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Richard Gadd’s “Baby Reindeer” at The Bush Theatre: An Obsessive Story About Obsession
True stories, even in a fictional form, have the power to grip you by the throat, furiously shake...
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“A History Of Water In The Middle East” at The Royal Court
Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian writer who has explored issues of Muslim and British...
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“Chiaroscuro” at The Bush Theatre
Identity politics have been around for decades. But it’s always good to revisit the subject....
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Caryl Phillips’s “Strange Fruit” at the Bush Theatre: Windrush Generation Classic
I’ve always been a bit sad that so many contemporary classics are so rarely revived. I have even...
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Kevin Elyot’s “Coming Clean” At The Trafalgar Studios
Long before Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping And Fucking, or Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, Kevin...
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Luke Barnes’s “All We Ever Wanted Was Everything” At The Bush Theatre
Sometimes, just sometimes, I see a show which makes me wish that all theatre could be like this. A...
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Vinay Patel’s “An Adventure”: An Epic Reading of One Asian Family’s Global Migration Story
Director Madani Younis, who since 2011 has transformed the Bush Theatre in West London into one of...
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“Leave Taking” at The Bush Theatre
Winsome Pinnock has for decades been a central figure in the promotion of BAME drama not just as a...
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Going Places Interview With Lauren Clancy, The New Executive Director of The Bush Theatre
Lauren Clancy, the new Executive Director of the Bush Theatre, talks to us about her first few...
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Are Monologues The Best Or “The B*easts” At The Bush Theatre?
Monologues are increasingly popular in contemporary British theatre. In an age of austerity, they...
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