Conversations, dispatches and ideas from the Bush Theatre.
Adjoa Andoh plays Mai. She is making her Bush Theatre debut in Leave Taking. Previous theatre includes: Julius Caesar (Bridge Theatre), Assata Taught Me (Gate Theatre), Soul (Royal & Derngate and Hackney Empire), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Donmar Warehouse), Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes, Starstruck (Tricycle Theatre), Great Expectations (Bristol Old Vic), Julius Caesar, Tamburlaine, The Odyssey (The RSC), Or You Could Kiss Me, His Dark Materials, Stuff Happens, The Revenger’s Tragedy (National Theatre), Blood Wedding (Almeida Theatre), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, In The Red And Brown Water, The Snow Queen (Young Vic), Breath Boom, Sugar Mummies (Royal Court), Purgatorio (Arcola Theatre), Nights at the Circus (Kneehigh/ Lyric Hammersmith) Pericles (Lyric Hammersmith), The Dispute (The RSC/Lyric Hammersmith), Glory (Lyric Hammersmith/Derby Playhouse/ West Yorkshire Playhouse), In The Bunker With The Ladies (Drill Hall), The Vagina Monologues (Criterion & Tour), Death Catches the Hunter (Traverse Theatre/ Wild Iris), Love at A Loss (Wild Iris/ BAC/UK tour), Cloud Nine (Contact), Our Day Out (Birmingham Rep), Princhdice and Co, Lear’s Daughters (Women’s Theatre Group).
Her film credits include: Brotherhood, Remainder, Julius Caesar, Invictus, Adulthood, Every Time I Look at You, A Rather English Marriage, I Is a Long Married Woman, What My Mother Told Me, The Missing Finger, One in Four A Short Film About Melons. Television includes: Death in Paradise, Acceptable Risk, Liar, Cucumber, Chasing Shadows, Law and Order, Line of Duty, New Tricks, River, The Interceptor, Missing, Scott and Bailey, Wire in the Blood, MI High, Doctor Who, The Shadow in the North, Chopra Town, Silent Witness, Dalziel & Pascoe, Casualty, In Search of Myths and Heroes, Brian Pern: Death of Rock, Wizards vs Aliens, Grandpa in My Pocket, Mrs. Inbetweeny, Macbeth, Jonathan Creek, Close Relations, An Independent Man, Health and Efficiency, Brittas Empire, Peak Practice, Thieftakers, Tomorrow People, Circle of Deceit, Twelve Angry Men, Brass Eye, Birthrights, West Indian Women at War.
