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Collaborating on The Cord: Dr Jess Heron & Bijan Sheibani

12 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

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“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…

The Invisible | Legal Aid Fact #1

Fri 26 Jun 2015 | Our Plays, The Bigger Picture

In preparation for The Invisible opening for previews next Friday, our friends and show sponsors of the production The Law Society have given us some facts (and one myth) about what cuts to the legal aid system mean. Here’s the first one – keep your eyes peeled as we release more in the lead up to Friday.

In the first quarter of 2014, 80% of all private family law cases had at least one party that was not represented. In around 30% of family law cases, neither party had any legal representation.

The National Audit Office in its report, Implementing the civil legal aid reforms, found the number of cases in which neither party in a family law case had representation had increased by 18,519 – around 30% of all cases. In the first quarter of 2014, 80% of all private family law cases had at least one party that was not represented.

*According to the Justice Select Committee report, March 2015.

The world premiere production of The Invisible by Rebecca Lenkiewicz runs from 3 July – 15 August here at the Bush, find out more about the play here.