Before We Forget

About

What if you could relive every moment of your life with perfect clarity?
Or erase forever the memories you’d rather leave behind?

With Recall, you can. But every choice comes at a cost.

In a world where memories are a commodity, the employees of Recall – the corporation reshaping how humanity remembers – find themselves caught between loyalty to the company that pays their bills and a growing resistance determined to expose the truth.

As the lines between memory, identity and profit begin to blur, friendships fracture, families are tested, and impossible choices must be made.

Co-created by the 18-25 Bush Young Company and Director Amber Ruby, Before We Forget is an urgent new devised production exploring what we choose to remember, what we choose to forget, and what it means to stay human in an increasingly virtual world.

A Bush Theatre Community production from the 18 - 25 Young Company. Bush Young Company is generously supported by John Thaw Foundation, Backstage Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation, John Lyon's Charity and Buffini Chao Foundation.

Creative team

Amber Ruby

Co-Creator & Director

Amber Ruby

Co-Creator & Director

Amber Ruby is a participatory theatre-maker whose practice centres young people, collaboration, and theatre as a place of agency, care, and joy.

They were most recently Resident Director on Dracula at the Noël Coward Theatre. They were previously Resident Director on the UK and International Tour of Six The Musical and an Associate Artist at Company Three.

As Associate / Assistant Director: Witness for the Prosecution (County Hall, West End); Alice in Wonderland (Brixton House); Red Pitch (Soho Place); When This Is Over (Company Three, The Yard); Groove (Shoreditch Town Hall); Black Is (Company Three, New Diorama); and Athena (The Yard).

As Director: Grow Up (Company Three, Park); The Body Remembers (The Albany); and Spores (BRIT School / New Diorama).
Georgia Wilmot

Set and Costume Designer

Georgia Wilmot

Set and Costume Designer

As Set & Costume Designer: Private View (Soho); Carrie (CSSD); Elephant (Menier Chocolate Factory); Conversations After Sex (Park); Cross The Line, Tour (both Lyric Hammersmith); Takeaway (Everyman, Liverpool); Communion, The End, Red Pitch, Elephant, Clutch, Invisible, The Kola Nut Does Not Speak English, BACK UP!, The Route, Project 2036 (all Bush); Before I Go (Brixton House); This Is A Love Story (Birmingham Hippodrome); Proof, Three Sisters, Chaos, Animal Farm (all St Marys University Summer Festival); The Wrong Reindeer (Oldham Theatre Workshop); The Time Has Come (The Playground); Invisible (59E59); Covered (New Heritage Theatre, Paddington Arts Centre); I Knew You (Birmingham Repertory); Days Of Significance (Questors).

Georgia Wilmot trained in Interior Design at Liverpool John Moores University before moving in to Theatre Production and Costume Design. In 2024 Georgia was nominated for a Black British Theatre Award in the Theatre Design (body of work) category.
Aaron Molloy

Lighting Designer

Aaron Molloy

Lighting Designer

Aaron Molloy has worked in the entertainment industry for over a decade across photography, performance, and art direction. His career has taken him through festivals, circus, cabaret, puppetry, live music, physical theatre, and immersive events, with a particular passion for the avantgarde.

His early experiences with object theatre, shadow work, and silent performance sparked a deep love for visual storytelling, leading him to explore set design, cabaret showcases, and themed installations. Aaron values empathy, clarity, and a positive approach to collaboration—qualities that have shaped his work with a wide range of artists, companies, and creative teams.

Aaron also works as a Light Technician at the Royal Opera House, Battersea Art Centre, Laban Dance School and other theatres across London. Having recently completed a Master’s in Light in Performance, he is now focused on bringing his creative voice to the stage.
Josh Anio Grigg

Sound Designer

Josh Anio Grigg

Sound Designer

Josh Anio Grigg is a sound designer and multimedia artist living in London, UK. He often works on the creation of theatre, dance and art installations. In 2008 he completed a Drama, Theatre and Performance degree at Roehampton University of Surrey.

He has designed and performed sound in many spaces in London including the National Theatre, Jermyn Street Theatre and Yard Theatre as well as creating and performing sound in festivals across Europe under a variety of names.

Sound Design, Music Production and Art Installation Work includes: Care (Young Vic); The Other Place (The Shed, NYC); Has the world changed or have I changed? (Laban); Private View (Soho); The Glass Menagerie, Multiple Casualty Incident (The Yard); Die Glasmenagerie (Basel); The Other Place (National Theatre).
Frey Kwa Hawking

Production Dramaturg

Frey Kwa Hawking

Production Dramaturg

Frey Kwa Hawking is a transsexual critic, dramaturg, theatre and arts worker. Having trained on the Royal Court’s Script Panel, he has been Co-Mentor for the New Dramaturgs Group and Theatremakers Group at Sheffield Theatres, and designed and delivered a programme for trans theatremakers with his company why this sky and Pushback Theatre. He was Dramaturg Assistant to Ola Animashawun for the Young Vic’s Neighbourhood Voices playwriting programme.

He has been a reader and dramaturg for organisations and companies including the Women’s Prize for Playwriting, Bruntwood Prize, Theatre503, the Royal Court Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, 37 Plays Project, The Upsetters, and Sheffield Theatres. He is a board member of the Dramaturgs’ Network.

Frey is Associate Dramaturge for the Bush Theatre.
Corey Bovell

Production Manager

Corey Bovell

Production Manager

Corey Bovell is a London-based actor, production manager, producer and writer with a multi-disciplinary career across theatre and film. He is the founder of Oisel Productions, a South East London-born company creating and producing new work since 2015. Through Oisel, Corey has led the development and staging of bold, socially engaged theatre at venues including Brixton House, Arcola, Pleasance, and Tristan Bates.

As Production Manager: TYPT & Talawa First (Fairfield Halls); One Way Out (Brixton House); C3 Festival (Capital City College); Grow Up (Park); Assembly (Tall Stories); #Blackis (New Diorama).

As Writer and Producer: Chicken Burger N Chips (Brixton House / Brockley Jack); Red Card (Pleasance); Theory of Three (Vault Festival); 32 Peak Street (Tristan Bates); The Last of Her Days (Ovalhouse).

His critically acclaimed play Chicken Burger N Chips winner of the Audio Drama Awards 2025, shortlisted and runner up in the Radio Times Readers Awards 2025, longlisted for the prestigious Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting in 2020, published by Salamander Street, and commissioned by BBC Radio 4 for adaptation in 2025.

Corey is also a trained actor, with credits across stage and screen. He holds a BA in Media from Kingston University and an MA in Acting from Rose Bruford College.
Dynzell Muguti

Stage Manager

Dynzell Muguti

Stage Manager

Dynzell Muguti is a multidisciplinary stage manager, who now primarily works within roles of company stage management, production management and technical stage management.

Previous works include: The P Word (Bush); The Harder They Come Musical (Stratford East); Hot Wing King (National Theatre) and a variety of other venue and touring shows, including Tambo and Bones and Brave Bettie (both UK tour).
Alicia Quah

Assistant Stage Manager

Alicia Quah

Assistant Stage Manager

Alicia Quah is a Stage Management graduate from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has worked on My Neighbour Totoro at the Gillian Lynne Theatre as part of a placement programme and as an Assistant Stage Manager Dep. She is drawn to stage management because it uses both the left and right sides of the brain. She enjoys tinkering with logic, reading, writing, and at the same time playing with dance, music, and design. She was born and raised in Singapore and is currently based in London.