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Bush theatre

May 2026

  • Peter performs standup comedy on a stage with a couch and red lighting behind him

    I’m Not Being Funny review – there’s laughter through tears in emotional dark comedy

    Married aspiring standups confront on stage what they’re concealing in real life, in Piers Black’s compelling two-hander

April 2026

  • Sophie Stanton and Rowan Robinson embracing in Heart Wall at Bush Theatre.

    Heart Wall review – grief knocks a family karaoke reunion off-key

    Secrets are exposed during a pub singalong as Franky returns home to find her parents divided in Kit Withington’s drama

February 2026

  • Shobu Kapoor, left, and Rehan Sheikh in Sweetmeats.

    Sweetmeats review – the ripe fruits of late love

  • (from left) Safiyya Ingar, Marcia Lecky and Sam Baker Jones in Maggots by Farah Najib at the Bush theatre, London.

    Maggots review – tragic tale of a death undiscovered for more than a year

November 2025

  • From left, Corey Weekes, Aimée Powell and David Webber in After Sunday at Bush theatre, London.

    After Sunday review – cookery class exposes simmering tensions in secure hospital

    Performed by an exceptional cast, Sophia’s Griffin’s debut play paints a vivid picture of men – and a system – in crisis

June 2025

  • A tour-de-force performance … Elander Moore (Jason), Diveen Henry (Miss Myrtle) and Michael Ahomka-Lindsay (Rudy) in Miss Myrtle's Garden.

    Miss Myrtle’s Garden review – immersion into a mindscape of sharp quips and memory slips

    Artistic director Taio Lawson’s Bush debut shows the heartbreaking fallout of an 82-year-old mother whose acid tongue belies her faltering memory

May 2025

  • Tommy Sim’aan (Laith Elzubaidi) in Insane Asylum Seekers at the Bush Studio. (Opening 13-05-25) ©Tristram Kenton theatre.

    Insane Asylum Seekers review – likably droll telling of generational trauma

    Laith Elzubaidi’s autobiographical one-man play explores the lingering pain of his family’s flight from Iraq with a standup’s humour

April 2025

  • Sabrina Sandhu, Arian Nik, Nikesh Patel and Shazia Nicholls in Speed. ©Tristram Kenton 04-25
(3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550  Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The week in theatre: Speed; Shanghai Dolls – review

  • An Asian man looks up, flanked by two Asian women and a man; two of the people are reaching up to his face

    Speed review – comic tale of road rage and race is approachably provocative

March 2025

  • Portrait of Linton in on red chair in red top looking at camera

    New play about impact of dementia on Black Britons can start ‘conversation’

  • Taio Lawson

    Taio Lawson to shepherd London’s Bush theatre as new artistic director

February 2025

  • Evlyne Oyedokun  as Eshe in ...blackbird hour.

    …blackbird hour review – a daring and dizzying portrait of isolation

  • Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew.

    ‘It’s a radical act to garden’: different queer generations find common ground in nature drama

December 2024

  • Phia Saban (Antigone), Mark Strong (Oedipus), Lesley Manville (Jocasta), James Wilbraham (Polyneices) and Jordan Scowen (Eteocles) in Oedipus.

    Theatre: Susannah Clapp’s 10 best shows of 2024

  • l-r Nadi Kemp-Sayfi (Ivy) and Annabel Baldwin (Ash) in 'Tender' at Bush Theatre

    The week in theatre: Tender; Expendable review – small provocations

November 2024

  • A woman in red shoes dances on a table, surrounded by other cast members

    The week in theatre: The Red Shoes; Wolves on Road – review

    The shoes do the talking, eventually, in the RSC’s handsome yet overpolite take on Andersen’s grisly fairytale
  • Kieran Taylor-Ford as Manny in Wolves on Road.

    Wolves on Road review – high-tempo crypto tale offers poor return

    As east London entrepreneurs Manny and Abdul try to get rich, Daniel Bailey’s energetic production bounces around but lacks any dramatic conflict
  • Eileen Walsh (Babs) and Cillian Murphy (Rick) in Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh at the Traverse theatre, Edinburgh, in 1997.

    The play that changed my life
    The play that changed my life: ‘Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs burned like magnesium’

    Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh were intoxicating as Pig and Runt – two characters at war with a world that didn’t care about them

September 2024

  • Maureen Beattie standing wirh her arms crossed in front of a panelled door.

    The week in theatre; The Lightest Element; The Real Ones – review

  • Nathaniel Curtis (Zaid) and Mariam Haque (Neelam) in The Real Ones by Waleed Akhtar at the Bush theatre.

    The Real Ones review – fascinating friendship zooms through decades

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