Andrew Scott in Sea Wall (2008) by Simon Stephens at the Bush Theatre
After a sell out and critically acclaimed run at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, the Bush brings its production of Simon Stephens’ Sea Wall back to London.
Please note that the performance will take place at The Bush at the Library 7 Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush, W12 8LJ. Tickets can be collected from the Bush at the Library, one hour before the performance.
Things for Alex are good. He loves his wife, his daughter, his city, his job. But sometimes the force of life can crash against you. Sometimes everything you thought you could always depend on can be taken away.
Sea Wall is a story about family, fear and the things that can’t be undone. It is award-winning playwright Simon Stephens’ new play. His previous plays include Pornography (Traverse Theatre, 2008), Port (Pearson Award for Best Play), Christmas, On the Shore of the Wide World (Olivier Award for Best New Play), Motortown, and Harper Regan.
Olivier Award Winner Andrew Scott’s recent theatre credits include Roaring Trade at the Soho Theatre and Vertical Hour on Broadway.
We’re thrilled to bring you this performance as part of the launch of The Bush at the Library – the new script reference library which will be housed at 7 Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush, W12 8LJ from 5 October. So do drop by to browse through our collection of scripts and performing arts related books.
Sea Wall was first shown at the Bush Theatre in 2008 as part of the Broken Space Season.
Co-founder and artistic director of nabokov and Creative Associate at the Bush Theatre.
Credits as Director include: Sea Wall (Bush Theatre); Is Everyone Ok? (Latitude Festival and National Tour, nabokov); House of Agnes (Oval House, Paines Plough); The Dirt Under The Carpet (Oran Mor Glasgow & Shunt Vaults London, Paines Plough); Crazy Love by Che Walker (Oran Mor Glasgow & Shunt Vaults London, Paines Plough); Terre Haute (59E59, New York/West End / National Tour / Assembly Rooms Edinburgh, nabokov); My Little Heart Dropped In Coffee, Babies (Paines Plough/Young Vic Wild Lunch) and Camarilla (Old Red Lion London/Edinburgh Festival Fringe, nabokov).
Credits as Associate Director include: Long Time Dead (Drum Theatre Plymouth, Paines Plough), After The End (New York/Moscow/National Tour, Paines Plough) and Nikolina (National Tour, nabokov). He was Trainee Associate Director of Paines Plough and Watford Palace Theatre.
He was the first recipient of the Genesis Director's Award from the Young Vic and is a member of Old Vic New Voices. George trained on the National Theatre Studio Director's Course and at The Maly Theatre, St Petersburg with the Young Vic.
Lucy has previously designed Wrecks, Broken Space Festival, 2,000 Feet Away, Tinderbox and The dYsFUnCKshOnalZ for the Bush Theatre (with whom she is a former Associate Artist).
Recent theatre credits include Twelfth Night for the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; Dreams of Violence (Out of Joint); Shades for the Royal Court’s Young Writers Festival; Macbeth (Edinburgh Lyceum/Nottingham Playhouse); Nina and Gas Station Angel (repertoire, LAMDA); Timing (Kings Head) and When Romeo Met Juliet (BBC)
She designed Artefacts (Nabakov Theatre Company / Bush Theatre) and Some Kind of Bliss (Trafalgar Studios), both of which transferred to the 2008 ‘Brits off Broadway Festival’ in New York and other theatre credits include Be My Baby (New Vic Theatre); Rope (Watermill Theatre); Closer (Theatre Royal Northampton); The Long and the Short and The Tall (Sheffield Lyceum); The Prayer Room (Birmingham Rep/Edinburgh Festival); Ship of Fools (set, Theatre 503); The Tempest (set, Box Clever National Tour); The Unthinkable (Sheffield Crucible Studio); Almost Blue (Riverside Studios, winner of Oxford Samuel Beckett Trust Award); Dr Faustus (The Place); Touch Wood (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Breaker Morant (Edinburgh Festival); Richard III (Cambridge Arts); Flight Without End, Lysistrata, Othello (LAMDA); Generation (Gate Theatre) and Season of Migration to the North (RSC New Writing Season).
Lucy graduated from Motley Theatre Design School in 2003, having also gained a BA in Fine Art from the University of Newcastle.
Current designs include: The Girls Of Slender Means (Edinburgh Festival).
Other designs include: Othello (Frantic Assembly, Plymouth Theatre Royal, national tour); Electric Counterpoint (The Royal Opera House); Sunday In The Park With George (Wyndhams Theatre, Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design 2007); Cinderella (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith); That Face (Royal Court, Duke Of York?s); Statement Of Regret (National Theatre); Wolves In The Walls (The National Theatre of Scotland, New York, national tour); Beyond Belief (The Carriageworks, Sydney); Ballet For The People (Royal Festival Hall); Encore/Greatest Hits for The Ballet Boyz (Sadler?s Wells); Beauty and The Beast (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith); Run! (Greenwich and Docklands International Festival); Mary Stuart, Home-Glasgow (National Theatre Of Scotland); Dirty Wonderland, Pool (No Water), Peepshow, Hymns, Sell-Out (Frantic Assembly); Tiny Dynamite (Frantic Assembly and Paines Plough co-production); Playhouse Creatures, Jerusalem (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
Theatre Includes Roaring Trade (Soho Theatre); The Vertical Hour (Broadway, Drama league nomination); Dying City (Royal Court); Aristocrats (National Theatre); A Girl In A Car With A Man (Olivier award), Playing the Victim, Crave, Dublin Carol (Royal Court); The Coming World (Soho Theatre); The Cavalcaders (Tricycle); Long Day's Journey Into Night (Gate, Dublin); The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, Six Characters In Search Of An Author, The Marriage of Figaro, A Woman Of No Importance (Abbey theatre, Dublin); The Lonesome West (Druid/Royal Court)
Television includes John Adams, My life in Film, Band of Brothers, Longitude, The American.
Film includes The Duel, Little White Lie, Dead Bodies, (Best Actor, Irish Film Awards. Shooting Star Award, Berlin FF), Saving Private Ryan, Korea, Nora.
