REVIEW: Heather, Bush Theatre ✭✭✭✭
A sharp shot of highly creative storytelling, Heather is well worth a visit to witness just what can be achieved with any limitations
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Star cast announced for Nassim Plays at Bush Theatre
The Bush Theatre is to host four of Iranian theatre-maker Nassim Soleimanpour’s plays this September. The plays will include Nassim, commissioned by the Bush Theatre directed by Omar Elerian and a Fringe First winner at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe; international hit White Rabbit Red Rabbit; BLANK (Bush Theatre’s RADAR 2015 and Edinburgh Fringe 2016) and new play Cook, co-created by Soleimanpour and Danish director Jesper Pedersen. The plays will play in repertory over two weeks. The works which require no rehearsals, no preparation, just a sealed envelope and a different actor each night reading a script for the first time. At each performance, a different cultural figure will take the stage. Performers for the London run will include Tim Crouch, Hari Dhillon, Kate Fleetwood, Deborah Frances-White, Mel Giedroyc, Denise Gough, Paterson Joseph, Josie Lawrence, Andi Osho, Vinay Patel, Scottee, Meera Syal, Mark Thomas and Dominic West. Artistic Director Madani Younis … Read more
REVIEW: Nassim, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and Bush Theatre, London ✭✭✭✭✭
But, while politics lurks in the background, Nassim is about the things that are common to all of us beyond language and cultural differences.
Madani Younis Announces Bush Theatre Winter Season
Bush Theatre Artistic Director Madani Younis has announced the Bush Theatre’s Winter Season of plays following the venues successful reopening in March 2017. The Winter Season is to include:- A retrospective of work by internationally acclaimed Iranian theatre-maker Nassim Soleimanpour.The retrospective will feature three previous works and a new play commissioned by the Bush Theatre. The Hijabi Monologues – a season of international stories featuring over 10 newworksfrom Muslim women both at home and abroad. New plays by Sophie Wu (Ramona Tells Jim) and Chris Thompson (Of Kith and Kin). A new play by Thomas Eccleshare entitled Heather in a production with Dancing Brick, Paul Jellis and Tobacco Factory Theatres. The Bruntwood Prize judges award-winning Parliament Square by James Fritz in a co-production with Royal Exchange Theatre. Madani Younis said: “As ever at the Bush Theatre, we continue to seek powerful plays that respond to the urgency of the world around us. … Read more
REVIEW: Guards At The Taj, Bush Theatre ✭✭✭✭
A deeply affecting story with moments of dark humour, Guards at the Taj is an excellent choice of a premiere for the newly renovated Bush Theatre.
