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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:…

“Fizzes, flashes, purrs.” F*ck the Polar Bears | Set Design Photo Gallery

Fri 25 Sep 2015 | Our Plays

“A great set by Chiara Stephenson, a frame outline of walls and doors that lights up, fizzes, flashes, purrs and sputters.”Arts Desk

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“The play crackles along – literally so, as Chiara Stephenson’s skeletal design sparks sporadically with electrical static.”What’s On Stage

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“Chiara Stephenson’s set is suitably sleek, a moneyed island framed by lights, the floor gleaming like a black lake.”The Stage

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“Chiara Stephenson’s geometric set sparkles. Literally.”Official London Theatre

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See Chiara’s set in action in the F*ck the Polar Bears trailer:

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