'I stood in Shepherds Bush station for an hour on Monday morning. 8 o'clock in the morning, 'cos I wanted someone to touch me, brush past me, bump into me – I don't care; just human touch'
Is it possible to connect in a city of nine million people?
A woman has gone missing in a block of flats overlooking Shepherds Bush Green. No one seems to know her name or where she came from. Charlene can't stop asking questions, Max can't bear to read the paper anymore, Pedro wants to be big in business, Jack wants to be a man, while Tracey just longs for some human contact.
Confronting dislocation, alienation and the need to engage, twelve young people search for an identity and a place in a city which forgets people as their individual lives intertwine in and around the urban turf of Sheperds Bush.
Anthea Williams is the Associate Director at the Bush Theatre in charge of bushfutures, the company's outreach and development arm. She also manages bushgreen.org – a new social networking and play publishing website for playwrights.
While at the Bush she has directed TURF by Simon Vinnicombe and TWO CIGARETTES by Jack Thorne and developed and directed 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER and 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER AT CHRISTMAS by Leah Chillery, Ben Ellis, Stacey Gregg, Lucy Kirkwood, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Ben Schiffer; suddenlossofdignity.com with Zawe Ashton, James Graham, Joel Horwood, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Michelle Terry.
Prior to working at the Bush she lived in Auckland and was the Co-Artistic Director of SmackBang Theatre Company and the Producer of Massive Company, where she produced new plays and national and international tours. Anthea trained as a director at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
