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Collaborating on The Cord: Dr Jess Heron & Bijan Sheibani

5 hours ago | Our Plays, The Bigger Picture

Dr Jess Heron, founder and CEO of National perinatal mental health charity, Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP), and acclaimed writer and director, Bijan Sheibani, collaborated on research for his new play The Cord, that follows a family struggling to navigate the postpartum period. “APP, which began as a research panel, now supports women and families…

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

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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…

Drama ideas for World Book Day 2017

Mon 27 Feb 2017 | The Bigger Picture

World Book Day takes place on the 2 March 2017. Our Community Producer, Amanda Castro, gives you some ideas to take into school.

World Book Day is the perfect opportunity to encourage a love of books and creative writing! And what better way to bring stories to life than drama? Here are a few tried and tested games and activities guaranteed to have your pupils buzzing about books.

  • Take a book that the class know well and ask them to recreate the story using a series of five tableaux (frozen images). Small groups work best! Ask the children what they think are the key moments of the book and how they can present them visually.
  • Ask small groups to create a “script” of their favourite moment from a book they know. This is a good opportunity to teach the class about writing dialogue and the conventions of writing a stage play. For an interesting twist, ask members of another group to perform the scene.  This will give the pupils the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of their dialogue and stage directions!
  • Ask your pupils to imagine the book as a play on stage – how would they picture it as a piece of live theatre? A fun creative exercise is to ask pupils to design and draw an imaginary set and costumes that depicts the world of the book, the different settings and the main characters– they can even create a model of the set!

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