Bush Retrospectives

As part of our 50th birthday this year, the Bush will be hosting five rehearsed readings celebrating and reflecting on plays that premiered here over the past 50 years. We’ve been producing world-class new writing, telling bold stories and making great theatre for 50 years. Join us to experience afresh five plays from our history. Each rehearsed reading will be followed by a panel discussion where the playwright will be in conversation with a writer of one of the plays from our Bush50 season. The first in this series of events focuses on Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, which premiered at the Bush in 1993. The reading will be followed by a panel discussion where Jonathan will be joined by Waleed Akhtar, writer of new play The P Word, which will have its world premiere this September.