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8 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…

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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…

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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…

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Theatre designs include: House of the Dead (Opera North), Der Freischutz and Beatrice et Benedict (for Opéra Comique), Das Portrait (Bregenz Festival), The Pearl Fishers (ENO), Le Donneur de Bain (Théâtre Marigny), La Grande Magie (Comédie Francaise), La Comedie des Erreurs (Theatre Vidy), The Firebird and Carl Davies’ ballet of Aladdin (New National Theatre Tokyo), Un Segreto d’Importanza (Teatro Communale di Bologna), The Gambler and Il Trittico (Opera Zuid in Maastricht), and El Burlador de Sevilla (Teatro Abadia Madrid).

In the UK and Ireland, designs include: Snegurochka (Wexford Festival Opera), Complicite’s Light and Jonathan Kent’s production of Lear (The Crucible), Il Re Pastore (Garsington Opera), The Canterville Ghost (English National Ballet), The Walls, Owen Meany and The Night Season (National Theatre), and Harvest (Royal Court). He designed Swimming With Sharks (Vaudeville Theatre), The Enchanted Pig, Street Scene and Been So Long (Young Vic), Othello and As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe).