Conversations, dispatches and ideas from the Bush Theatre.

BUSHCYLING: How we’re improving our sustainability, one stage set at a time

Thu 23 Nov 2023 | Our Plays, The Bigger Picture

When you watch a new show at the Bush, you’re seeing a brand new set every time… or are you? Putting on a production can use a lot of resources: from energy for lights to purchasing costumes and furniture to the timber needed to build sets and scenery, so we try to reuse materials as…

“I keep coming back to sex and death – but, you know, in a fun way.” Meet Marcelo Dos Santos

Thu 02 Nov 2023 | Our People, Playwriting

With a day to go until Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen bursts onto our stage, we caught up with writer Marcelo Dos Santos to get the inside scoop on his inspirations for the play and how it feels to, as he says, “put it all out there”. “I’m inspired by…

Writer and star of Elephant | Meet Anoushka Lucas

Thu 21 Sep 2023 | Bush Artists

Opening this October, Olivier Award nominee Anoushka Lucas returns to the Bush Theatre with a brand new production of her debut play, Elephant. Here is everything you need to know about the incredibly talented writer and performer behind the production. She never planned to be an actor… or a playwright. Anoushka is a multi-talented artist:…

City Guide: Tehran

Tue 03 Nov 2015 | Playwriting, The Bigger Picture

RADAR artists come 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 Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour, who is now based in Berlin, on his hometown Tehran.

Nassim returns to the Bush in July 2017 with new play Nassim.

Best place to see new plays, new work and why?

Fadjr Theatre Festival. It’s said to be the biggest theatre event in Iran.

Best place to have a coffee and write?

Book City Central, though I’ve neither tried their coffee nor wrote a line there.

The playwriting/theatre/artistic community in Tehran is…

Young!

Where to go to get inspired?

ANYWERE! You ran out of ideas? Fly to Iran.

New plays from Tehran are…

As layered as Iranian onions.

Three essentials:

A good camera, enough cash and an open return flight.

Writers to read …

Classic poets like Hafez, Saadi Shirazi, Khayyam, Ferdowsi and Rumi.

Where should you go to escape the city?

Mountains in the north, Lavasan, Fasham, Dizin or any of the few roads which lead you to the Caspian Sea.

An image that represents city for you.
An aged parent bringing fresh Naan home.

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Don’t miss the UK premiere of Nassim’s new play Blank – each night at RADAR it will be completed by a new performer before a live audience. Starring Paul Hunter on 19th November, Tim Crouch on 20th November, and Hattie Morahan on 21st November.

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