Portrait by Racheal Ofori Presented by Fuel A frank, fun and provocative look at the trials and tribulations of modern life seen through the eyes of a young black woman. Inspired by Racheal’s own experiences, Portrait uses music, poetry and humour to examine identity and role models and challenge cultural stereotypes. Written and performed by…
Portrait by Racheal Ofori Presented by Fuel A frank, fun and provocative look at the trials and tribulations of modern life seen through the eyes of a young black woman. Inspired by Racheal’s own experiences, Portrait uses music, poetry and humour to examine identity and role models and challenge cultural stereotypes. Written and performed by…
Heather Agyepong’s theatre credits include: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith); Celebrated Virgins (Theatr Clwyd); The Body Remembers (Battersea Arts Centre); Noughts & Crosses (UK tour); Girls (Soho); So Many Reasons and Best Friends (Ovalhouse); Hatch (Hackney Showrooms); Jagged Edge (Acrylick); Still Barred (Initiative.dkf). For television, her credits include: The Power…
'He didn't think I was worth it – all this effort and stuff you're doing. Because it isn't your fault I'm like this.' A searing portrait of relationships read between the lines, When You Cure Me tells the story of Rachel, victim to an incident that's left her inexplicably paralysed. There's nothing her super-carer mum…
TOM FOOL takes us back to the moment when women finally began to change the rules of the game. Otto Meier is a superb portrait of what still passed, in 1970s Germany, for an ordinary working man. Obsessed with the minute hierarchies of his factory workplace, used to taking his wife Martha completely for granted…
THE CONTINGENCY PLAN is a double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change. They both stand alone and are complementary. Together, they present an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in which huge flooding has destroyed Bristol and threatens to sink the east coast. ON THE BEACH Thirty years ago,…
THE CONTINGENCY PLAN is a provocative double bill from the frontline of climate change. They both stand alone and are complementary. Together, they present an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in which huge flooding has destroyed Bristol and threatens to sink the east coast. First produced at the Bush in 2009,…
This is a very good place to come from. Cos it’s knackered and funny and it’s falling in the sea… But it’s not a good place to end up Things aren’t going to plan for one family in Withernsea. Pieces are falling off Martin’s milk float as quickly as he’s losing customers and something’s up…
An explosive double bill of new, short plays found in West London, directed by Blanche McIntyre and performed in an exciting space at the new Bush: REPENTANCE by Mediah Ahmed Tug of war. A game I used to play as a child. It was fun then. A miniature epic about a Muslim girl, her new…
Winner of The Stage Awards Best Solo Performance, Edinburgh Festival 2010 January 1945. Paris has been liberated. Christiane, an eccentric and acutely myopic Parisian waits at Gare Du Nord for a ticket to England to be reunited with her fiancé. Whilst she waits, this gloriously irrepressible mademoiselle recounts the story of her love affair with…
Meet Bush Associate Artists Sabrina Mafhouz and Caroline Horton in these two intimate, frankly spoken and wildly funny solo shows performed over one evening. You’re Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy by Caroline Horton January 1945. Paris has been liberated. Christiane, an eccentric and acutely myopic Parisian waits at Gare Du Nord for a ticket…
Presented by Scrawl Productions in collaboration with Richard Jordan Productions Ltd in association with the Bush Theatre as part of RADAR 2012 ‘If I died tomorrow, I would have died having done nothing. So I made a promise there and then that we would live tonight like it was our last’ He’s been let down,…
Skin Deep is a London-based multimedia platform that amplifies voices of colour through the discussion of race, culture and politics. Skin Deep curate an evening of conversation, live performance and collective listening. Join them for a sonic exploration of the immense creative influence of Black and Brown people on London culture. Drummer, composer and Producer.…
A kaleidoscope of stories about our city. This is us and we are here. Dive headfirst into this portrait of our city, told through snatches of overheard conversations and snapshots of city dwellers’ lives. It’s those countless little moments that shape who we are, and why we are here. Funny, sentimental and a little absurd…
We’re just taking a moment here to appreciate the wonder and queen that is the playwright and academic Winsome Pinnock. We’re staging a contemporary revival of her seminal play Leave Taking in 2018. 1. She was the first Black woman to have a play at the National Theatre This fact is both mega cool (for…
Want more from your theatre trip? Join us for free post-show Q&As, panel discussions and informal theatre chats this season. These live events will aim to provide you, and especially solo attenders, the chance to find meaning through conversation and reflection upon our work. We will ask big questions about the world now: from the nuance of…
The Board of Trustees use their skills and experience to support the Bush as a charity. Uzma Hasan (Chair) Uzma Hasan is Chair of the Bush Theatre. She sits on the board of Ffilm Cymru Wales, the development agency for Welsh film and on juries for BAFTA, BIFA and Film London. Previously, she was a…
WeAreW12 is a free photography exhibition and a celebration of Shepherd’s Bush, created by photographer Eileen Perrier and the people of Shepherd’s Bush. Eileen is a graduate of The Royal College of Art. Her work has been widely exhibited since 1999, including at The Photographers’ Gallery, Tate Britain and The Whitechapel Gallery. Eileen introduces WeAreW12. I have been taking portraits…
A theatre lover’s guide to Edinburgh written by Lindsey Campbell, star of Right Now. Best place to see new plays, new work and why? Without a doubt The Traverse, the variety of work that is programmed there is brilliant. ‘A Play, a Pie and a Pint’ is also just one of the most genius set…
This week we’re delighted to welcome brilliant young theatre company ANTLER back to RADAR two years after their Bush debut in 2013. Here they tell us all about their new show If I Were Me which is on 17-19 Nov. Can you tell us about your show in one sentence? Phillip Sandford searches for Phillip Sandford. Tell us three things…
Ahead of his RADAR debut tonight, we caught up with Joe Sellman-Leava who’s Fringe First Award-winning show Labels draws Joe’s own experiences of mixed heritage and racism. Can you tell us about your show in one sentence? Labels is a funny, moving and honest story about multicultural Britain. What questions lies at the heart of the…
Portrait, showing here 16-18 November as part of RADAR our annual festival of new writing, is an exciting debut solo show from writer, performer and rising talent Racheal Ofori (The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare’s Globe). We caught up with Racheal to find out more. Can you tell us about your show in one sentence?…
RADAR artists are coming from across the UK and beyond to be part of the festival. Before they get here we’ve been asking them to write little city guides for theatre-lovers. Here’s Joe Sellman-Leava on Exeter, where it all began with his theatre company Worklight Theatre. Best place in Exeter to see new plays, new…
We caught up with Michael Oakley, director of the world premiere production of Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s The Invisible, to talk about the play, legal aid, and why theatre is the perfect medium to tell this story. The Invisible deals with cuts to the legal aid system; we meet characters who need legal aid and characters who…
Today we’re launching Who’s Watching Who? an exhibition of photographs in our building that have been taken by members of Only Connect, a local organisation working with young people at risk and ex-offenders. Taking inspiration from The Royale, and the life story of Jack Johnson—the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion—these images are a response to…
BushGreen can’t wait to visit Mr Elbank’s Beard Exhibition at Somerset House this month, to mark the launch of Beard Season. We especially love the portrait of Harnaam Kaur, the inspirational British woman who decided to grow her beard after being diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome to challenge society’s ideas of normality. Read more about the exhibition in…
“To be honest, I knew more about Muhammad Ali; he was in our time. But I learned about Jack Johnson. Ali’s contribution was profound, but Jack Johnson’s was the first. It was quite a story. I am a lover of history and it was good to look again at the sort of attitudes that were…
Hetain Patel, writer & performer of American Boy, on being influenced by Bruce Lee, listening exclusively to Michael Jackson and making a show entirely of Hollywood film quotes. Can you tell us about your show in one sentence? It’s a show made entirely of Hollywood film quotes that I perform physically and vocally. What questions…
BushGreen Loves London and Morocco based photographer Hassan Hajjaj’s photographs of Moroccan hipsters Check out more of Hassan Hajjaj’s work: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/12/hassan-hajjaj-portraits_n_5807750.html Reginal, 2013 by Hassan Hajjaj Part of My Rockstars Vol. 2 Hajjaj, Hasson. Reginal. 2013. Gusford, Los Angeles. The Huffington Post. Web. 10 October 2014. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/12/hassan-hajjaj-portraits_n_5807750.html
Theatre credits include: One Man, Two Guvnors (directed by Nicholas Hytner/Adam Penford), The Humans (directed by Alexandre Singh), King Lear (directed by Tim Crouch), Our Country’s Good (directed by Max Stafford-Clark), Henry IV, parts 1 & 2, Where There’s a Will, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Portrait of a Lady, A Doll’s House, The Vortex, Uncle…
