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Collaborating on The Cord: Dr Jess Heron & Bijan Sheibani

19 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…

#PullUpOrShutUp: Our Statistics

Mon 20 Jul 2020 | Our People

We’re responding to Theatre Action’s call to #PullUpOrShutUp with a snapshot of our most recent data from 2019/20.

The Bush exists to celebrate and reflect the many different communities of our incredible city. We know there are areas of representation where we need to do better. We will follow up with an action plan to address the areas where we need to be more reflective of our city. This will follow when we have a fuller working team.

Pull Up or Shut Up: Our statistics

Click here for a PDF version of the statistics

When publishing data on groups of fewer than 10 we have shared fewer categories to ensure our data does not risk identifying individuals.

Please note: Staff data does not include Front of House staff or Casual staff. Data on our freelance workforce only includes in-house productions and co-productions. Our equality monitoring surveys are optional and where staff have preferred not to disclose this information we have indicated it in our table.