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: Exeter

Thu 29 Oct 2015 | Playwriting, The Bigger Picture

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 work and why?

The Bike Shed Theatre. This was being set up as we were graduating in 2010, and the venue and its team remain as committed now as they were then to nurturing and retaining local artists as well as programming national and international work. It’s done a huge amount for the city’s theatre ecology.

Best place to have a coffee and write?

The Phoenix Arts Centre. There’s always an interesting exhibition to wander around. Having said that, the Cathedral Green is a very nice place to sit/think/write.

The playwriting/theatre/artistic community in Exeter is…

Full of passion and promise.

Where to go to get inspired?

See some new work. Take a red coat tour and walk through some of the city’s beautiful history.

New plays from Exeter are…

Innovative, exciting and authentic.

Three Exeter Essentials:

Firehouse – get a pizza and local ale
McGahey’s coffee shop
A walk along the quay

Writers to read?

Natalie McGrath

Where to go to escape the city?

Exmouth. It’s a beautiful coastline, and only a short train ride away.

And what image represents Exeter for you?

The Imperial beer garden on a sunny evening.

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Writer and star of Elephant | Meet Anoushka Lucas

City Guide: Exeter

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​.

Don’t miss Joe in Labels at RADAR on 16 Nov as part of a double bill with Portrait by Racheal Ofori. For more info and to book tickets click here.

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.

**Don’t miss Joe in Labels at RADAR on 16 Nov as part of a double bill with Portrait by Racheal Ofori. For more info and to book tickets click here.**