Conversations, dispatches and ideas from the Bush Theatre.

Collaborating on The Cord: Dr Jess Heron & Bijan Sheibani

23 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

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…

Guards at the Taj | Cast announced

Tue 28 Feb 2017 | Our Plays

**Darren Kuppan and Danny Ashok have been cast in Guards at the Taj.**

Guards at the Taj takes as its starting point an enduring legend and prompts contemporary questions about art and privilege.

Darren Kuppan plays Babur. His theatre credits include Cymbeline (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre), The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre), Cast The Light (Walk The Plank), East Is East (Trafalgar Studios & Tour), An August, Bank Holiday Lark (Northern Broadsides), Melody Loses Her Mojo (20 Stories High), England Street (Oxford Playhouse), Much Ado About Nothing (RSC), We Love You City Revival (Belgrade/Talking Birds) and Aladdin (Theatre Royal Stratford East). Television includes Coronation Street, Spooks, Britannia High, Emmerdale and The Adam & Shelley Show.

Danny Ashok plays Humayun. He appeared at the Bush in the Pulitzer Prize winning and Tony Award nominated Disgraced which transferred to the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway. He starred in Zaida and Aadam at the Bush as part of This Place We Know in 2016. He recently played a leading part in The Djinns of Eidgah at the Royal Court. Theatre credits include Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 at the Theatre Royal Bath, and Blood and Gifts at the National Theatre. TV credits include the International Emmy winning BBC Drama Capital. Also: Silk, Holby City, Doctors, Chasing Shadows and Coronation Street. Danny has just recorded a second series of Tumanbay for BBC Radio 4.

Writer: Rajiv Joseph
Director: Jamie Lloyd
Designer: Soutra Gilmour
Lighting Designer: Richard Howell
Sound Designer and Composer: George Dennis
Costume Supervisor: Lydia Crimp
Fight Director: Kate Waters

Guards at the Taj is a Bush Theatre production that runs 7 Apr – 20 May 2017 in the Theatre. It’s directed by Jamie Lloyd and written by Rajiv Joseph.

Find out more and book here.

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