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BUSHCYLING: How we’re improving our sustainability, one stage set at a time

Thu 23 Nov 2023 | Our Plays, The Bigger Picture

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…

“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…

Writer and star of Elephant | Meet Anoushka Lucas

Thu 21 Sep 2023 | Bush Artists

Opening this October, Olivier Award nominee Anoushka Lucas returns to the Bush Theatre with a brand new production of her debut play, Elephant. Here is everything you need to know about the incredibly talented writer and performer behind the production.  She never planned to be an actor… or a playwright. Anoushka is a multi-talented artist:…

Kit Withington

Mon 21 Sep 2020 |

Kit Withington is a playwright from Manchester. In 2015 her debut play The View From Down Here was part of Ovalhouse’s First Bites season. She has since written plays for several community theatre projects including writing Streets, a piece of promenade theatre for Theatre Royal Stratford East’s Young Company in 2016. Kit was a member of Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab in 2018. Her play As We Face the Sun (formerly titled Scrap) was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award and had a reading at the theatre. In 2019 Kit was on the Royal Court’s Intro Writers’ Group. Since April 2020 she has been part of the Royal Court’s invitational group.