The Bush Theatre is an internationally-renowned centre for developing new writing and writers, bringing the best in homegrown and international talent to London audiences. The company also continues to develop its national and international touring role. Our funding supports core costs.
Casino and Queenie used to be hedge fund managers. Before the financial crisis of 2008, that is. Now, in an inspired - or desperate - career move, they've turned to performance art to share their stories of how to make (and lose) billions from economic downturn.
Playing with £10,000 in real pound coins, you are invited to bet long, short and hedge, as game show hosts Casino and Queenie challenge you to play a series of high stake games that demonstrate how the world's economic system came to the brink of collapse.
So, risk takers to the front, risk averse to the back. Welcome to MONEY the game show.
The Bush teams up with Unlimited Theatre to take a playful and politically sharp look at the roots of the financial crisis and its ongoing impact, as well as tackling some bigger questions: What is money? What is it worth? And what happens when we stop believing in it?
31 Jan - 2 March
www.bushtheatre.co.uk
020 8743 5050
Tickets £10 - £19.50
Three teenage boys. A reckless act. Tragic consequences.
On the muddy banks of the River Thames, downstream from the bright lights of London, three boys hide from the police after a night of thrilling recklessness. Over the course of the night their lives will change forever. As the dynamics of their relationships shift, their fears, secrets and dreams emerge, revealing the desperate frustration of lives barely led but already ravaged.
Vickie Donoghue's powerful debut was a sell-out show at HighTide Festival and Theatre503. Her writing flashes with humour, but pulls no punches as she explores why some people dare to dream, and why others cannot.
18 Sept - 20 Oct
Tickets from £10
www.bushtheatre.co.uk
020 8743 5050
This summer Theatre Delicatessen is unearthing a new and wondrous world at the Bush Theatre; the world of Bush Bazaar, where market traders rub shoulders with fortune tellers, stock brokers and white-coated doctors in a fantastical environment where anything could happen.
We invite you to enter this world, inhabited by an eclectic array of performers who have taken over the space and are selling their wares. It is up to you whose performance gets your cash. As you roam the building you will decide what each piece is worth and pay your way however you want to - by haggling, bartering, begging or stealing.
Bush Bazaar is brought to you by Theatre Delicatessen in association with the Bush Theatre.
31 July to 18 August
Tickets £10 (£8 concessions)
www.bushtheatre.co.uk
Box Office: 020 8743 5050
'Fear' playwright and director Dominic Savage talks about the inspiration, collaboration process and creative aims in creating his first piece for the London stage.
'Fear' plays at the Bush Theatre from 18 June - 14 July.
For more information and ticket booking, visit http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/production/fear_/
'Mad About the Boy' playwright Gbolahan Obisesan chats about growing up in Southeast London, why he's not a comedian, and opening a new studio space at the Bush.
Acclaimed Palestinian director Amir Nizar Zuabi discusses "the Abrahamic myth of the sacrifice" in 'The Beloved', the next show at London's Bush Theatre.
NEW WRITING, NEW ARTISTS.
Writers include Lee Mattinson, Sabrina Mahfouz, Caroline Horton, Amir Nizar Zuabi, Gbolahan Obisesan and Dominic Savage.
Find out more and book for the new season at bushtheatre.co.uk
A hilarious and warmhearted new play by Tom Wells, playing at the Bush Theatre until 23rd December.
"One of the best new plays I have seen this year" 5 STARS The Telegraph
www.bushtheatre.co.uk
Poet Naomi Foyle discusses her work for Sixty-Six Books at the new Bush Theatre. See all 66 playwrights, poets and songwriters involved at http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/sixtysix/.
This October, Sixty-Six world famous writers, one hundred and thirty actors and twenty three directors unite to celebrate the opening of the new Bush Theatre.
From Jeanette Winterson to Jack Thorne, Carol Ann Duffy to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Tim Rice to Billy Bragg, sixty-six playwrights, poets and songwriters will fill every corner of the Bush Theatre with contemporary responses to the King James Bible.
The show begins and ends with two epic twenty-four hour events on the 14th and 28th of October where you can experience all the sixty-six responses and spend the night exploring our new home from the attic to the cellar, or you can see a selection of responses during the week.
For more information and bookings, please visit www.bushtheatre.co.uk
0208 743 5050
MOMENT by Deirdre Kinahan
25th February - 26th March at the Bush Theatre, London
A Tall Tales Theatre Company and Solstice Arts Centre production in association with the Bush Theatre
On a seemingly ordinary evening an Irish family sit down to tea. The difference tonight is that Nial is home -- back from prison having committed a dark crime many years earlier with some news to share and a conscience to clear.
The UK premiere of an explosive new play from one of Ireland 's most celebrated playwrights Deirdre Kinahan which examines how one terrible moment can change lives irrevocably.
www.bushtheatre.co.uk
020 8743 5050
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Olly Alexander, Mackenzie Crook and Ralf Little talk about Annie Baker's THE ALIENS - playing at the Bush Theatre from 15th September - 16 October. www.bushtheatre.co.uk
See what our audiences have been saying about THE GREAT BRITISH COUNTRY FETE. This hilarious musical comedy by comedian Russell Kane with songs by Michael Bruce plays at the Bush until 14th August. For bookings and more information, visit www.bushtheatre.co.uk
Anthony Weigh, author of LIKE A FISHBONE at the Bush Theatre, talks about the play and gives a special insight into how he wrote it. Book at www.bushtheatre.co.uk or on 020 8743 5050.
James Graham takes us through a day of rehearsals for his new play The Whisky Taster. The production will premier at the Bush Theatre on 20th Jan 2010, is directed by James Grieve and stars Samuel Barnett, Kate O'Flynn, Chris Larkin, Simon Merrels and John Stahl
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Mudlarks by Vickie Donoghue at the Bush Theatre
'Fear' playwright and director Dominic Savage
Meet the Playwright: Gbolahan Obisesan, 'Mad About the Boy'
Amir Nizar Zuabi - writer/director 'The Beloved'
Meet the Playwright: an interview with Lee Mattinson
Madani Younis's Debut Season at the Bush Theatre
Naomi Foyle on Sixty-Six Books
Great British Country Fete audience reactions
Seventeen Years, Ten Months and Twenty - Nine Days Old
Little Gem at the Bush Theatre
