Category: bush theatre
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Review: Heart Wall, Bush Theatre *** ½
Review: Heart Wall is a poignant exploration of home, grief, and unresolved family secrets
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Review: Maggots, Bush Theatre ****
Review: Maggots at the Bush Theatre explores the hidden human cost of urban neglect, revealing the fragile connections between community and storytelling in contemporary society.
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Review: After Sunday, Bush Theatre ****
Review: After Sunday at the Bush Theatre explores the intersection of Caribbean identity and a failing psychological care system, highlighting trauma, resilience, and human connection.
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Review: Not your Superwoman, Bush Theatre ****½
Review: Not Your Superwoman captivates audiences with its exploration of generational dynamics in a Guyanese immigrant family, promising a West End transfer.
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Review: Make Me Feel, Bush Theatre (Young Company) ***
Review: The Bush Theatre’s production “Make Me Feel” showcases the Young Company’s talent, tackling pertinent themes around communication and mental health, culminating in a powerful, engaging performance.
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Review: Miss Myrtle’s Garden, Bush Theatre ****½
Review: Miss Myrtle’s Garden is a poignant play about memory loss, explored through Myrtle’s relationships, blending humour and deep emotion effectively.
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Review: Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew, Bush Theatre ****
Review: Coral Wylie, a founding member of the Bush Theatre’s Young Company, both writes and performs in “Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew,” a World Premiere exploring the complexities of family life and queer identity. Through the story of Pip and the late Duncan amidst the AIDS epidemic, it captures generational connections and the challenges of acceptance.
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Review: …blackbird hour, Bush Theatre (and on tour) ***½
Review: …blackbird hour directed by malakaï sargeant, is a poignant play that explores mental illness through the character Eshe, portrayed by Evlyne Oyedokun. With powerful performances and innovative staging, it highlights the impact of mental health struggles on individuals and their supporters. The production offers a challenging yet vital viewing experience.
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Review: The Cord, Bush Theatre ***
The early days of parenthood are exhausting, destabilising and throw every relationship into a starker relief than previously. Too often in theatre and TV, these days are presented for either their comedy value or through an idealistic lens of the love which new parents feel for the new person they have created. It is refreshing…
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Review: Shifters, Bush Theatre ****
Tender love story Shifters by Benedict Lombe has been a sell-out success at the Bush Theatre and it seems hard to believe we might not see it in another incarnation soon. The Bush, under the artistic direction of Lynette Linton is going from strength to strength and Shifters is another triumph for them. Des(tiny) (Heather…
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Review: August in England, Bush Theatre *****
Review: Lenny Henry’s impactful play on Windrush reveals the injustices faced by Caribbean residents in the UK, blending humour and poignant reality.
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Review: Invisible, Bush Theatre ***
What stories do we tell? Whose stories? Who chooses? These are important questions asked in Invisible, a one man show featuring Nikhil Parmar, currently playing at the Bush Theatre and shortly due to travel to New York as part of the 59E59’s Brits Off Broadway season. Parmar wrote the play as a Bush Theatre commission…
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