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‘In this buzzing show, no one stands still’: RED PITCH – Bush Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz8th March 2022Leave a Comment

Effortlessly and energetically entertaining: Tyrell Williams’ debut play about football and gentrification is pitch-perfect.

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‘Dynamic, energetic & paced like an 800m race’: FAIR PLAY – Bush Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Tom Bolton19th January 2022Leave a Comment

Ella Road’s new two-hander is set in the world of track athletics, but the two characters, Ann (NicK King) and Sophie (Charlotte Beaumont) are not just any runners.

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‘It envelops you into the landscape of serious athletics’: FAIR PLAY – Bush Theatre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Rev Stan3rd January 2022Leave a Comment

Fair Play is set in the world of female athletics. Ann joins a running club, meets Sophie, and the two bond over their love of running.

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Five of my favourite theatre productions of 2021

In Features, London theatre, Musicals, Online shows, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Touring by Shane Morgan30th December 2021Leave a Comment

We all know how we feel about 2021. What we need to do is celebrate what made it fabulous so here is my pick of what the year had to offer.

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‘The performers ring true throughout’: FAIR PLAY – Bush Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly23rd December 2021Leave a Comment

Sophie has been running competitively since she was nine. Now on the threshold of adulthood, she’s training hard with an unwavering focused on major international competitions.

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‘Some moments are desperately moving, almost unbearably sad’: OLD BRIDGE – Bush Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz17th November 2021Leave a Comment

Powerful, poetic and profound: this well-deserved winner of the 2020 Papatango New Writing Prize now gets a cracking production on the main stage at the Bush Theatre.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: Old Bridge at the Bush Theatre

In Features, London theatre, News, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Emma Clarendon13th November 2021Leave a Comment

On LoveLondonLoveCulture, Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for Igor Memic’s 2020 Papatango New Writing Prize-winning play Old Bridge, now running at the London’s Theatre until 20 November 2021.

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‘Perfectly captures how easy it is to slip into war’: OLD BRIDGE – Bush Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Shanine Salmon12th November 2021Leave a Comment

A young woman listens to pop music on headphones. The people around her can’t hear it. We, the audience, can – a bit. But it’s a solitary experience; unshared. Something universal is also isolating.

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‘Explores how belief can be a psychological & emotional journey’: 10 NIGHTS – Bush Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz1st November 2021Leave a Comment

This new coproduction between Graeae and Tamasha is not perfect, but it offers a moving insight into ritual and belief.

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‘A powerful play from an author we need to hear’: LAVA – Bush Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Tom Bolton30th July 2021Leave a Comment

The lava in the title of Benedict Lombe’s new, fierce, autobiographical play is anger. It flows over the stage, filling the crevasses of the set, and through Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo’s smouldering performance, which soon bursts into flame.

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‘Witty, weighted & lyrical’: LAVA – Bush Theatre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Rev Stan19th July 2021Leave a Comment

Last year a critic described a dramatic response to the Black Lives Matter protests, to which Benedict Lombe contributed, as ‘more lecture than theatre’. The quote is projected onto the set of her debut play, Lava, at the Bush Theatre.

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‘Passionate, powerful & challenging’: LAVA – Bush Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Louise Penn15th July 2021Leave a Comment

Benedict Lombe’s new play Lava is semi-autobiographical and full of activism and difficult moments, alongside a story railing against Kafkaesque bureaucracy.

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‘A smart & sassy study of loneliness & obsession’: HARM – Bush Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz26th May 2021Leave a Comment

Harm, which has already been screened on BBC Four with Leanne Best, is a new monologue by Bruntwood Prize-winning playwright Phoebe Eclair-Powell and now the one-woman show stars Kelly Gough, familiar most recently from the BBC’s Casualty.

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‘Rich, multi-layered play that is clever in its storytelling’: OVERFLOW – Bush Theatre (Online review) ★★★★

In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Rev Stan22nd January 2021Leave a Comment

Travis Alabanza’s play Overflow is set in the toilet of a club from where transgirl Rosie (Reece Lyons) has locked herself in.

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‘Open, thought-provoking, funny & heartbreaking’: OVERFLOW – Bush Theatre (Online review)

In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Louise Penn19th January 2021Leave a Comment

New play Overflow by Travis Alabanza returns as a digital stream and proves to be an intriguing hour about the politics of women’s bathrooms and who is allowed in them.

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‘Plenty here to engage both mind & feelings’: OVERFLOW – Bush Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz15th December 2020Leave a Comment

Travis Alabanza’s play Overflow at the Bush Theatre is both tender in its empathy for the different kinds of trans experience and passionately angry about prejudice.

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NEWS: Winners of the Black British Theatre Awards 2020 are announced

In Awards, London theatre, Musicals, Native, News, Online shows, Plays, Press Releases by Press Releases27th October 2020

The first televised Black British Theatre Awards 2020 were a vibrant affair hosted by presenter and comedic actor Eddie Nestor, filmed at London’s Young Vic Theatre and broadcast on Sky Arts.

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NEWS: Three prizes each for & Juliet, Dear Evan Hansen & Emilia as Olivier Awards 2020 winners are announced

In Awards, Dance, London theatre, Musicals, Native, News, Opera, Plays, Press Releases by Press Releases26th October 2020

The winners of the Olivier Awards 2020 with Mastercard were announced in a special ITV programme filmed at The London Palladium, and on Official London Theatre’s YouTube channel.

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NEWS: Winners announced for The Stage Debut Awards 2020

In Awards, London theatre, Musicals, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Regional theatre by Press Releases27th September 2020

Newcomer Sam Tutty scooped two awards for his star-making performance in the hit West End musical Dear Evan Hansen at The Stage Debut Awards 2020. The awards were presented as a virtual ceremony filmed at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket.

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‘Theatre is rarely so forceful or so urgent’: THE PROTEST – Bush Theatre

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz19th June 2020Leave a Comment

This venue’s urgent response to the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter campaign is powerfully realised.

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