There are a million ways to tell someone it's over.
This crazy cocktail of characters and stories created by five of the Bush's hottest new playwrights explores every aspect of the break-up, whether hilarious, heart-breaking or just plain ridiculous. Inspired by true stories contributed by its audience, it will strike a chord with anyone who's ever loved and left.
Bush On Tour
Oxford – North Wall Arts Centre 4-5 July
Norwich Playhouse 14-15 July
Latitude Festival 19-20 July
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.
Tom trained at Central School of Speech and Drama in Theatre Sound and is resident sound designer for international physical theatre company Parrot{in the}Tank.
Designs for the Bush: 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover at Christmas, The Broken Space Season (as Associate), The Aliens (as Associate), The Schools Season.
Other recent design credits include: Love Love Love (Paines Plough, Tour), The Chairs (Theatre Royal Bath), The Road To Mecca, The Roman Bath, 1936, The Shawl (Arcola),Everything Must Go, Soho Streets (Soho Theatre), Holes (New Wimbledon Studio), Terror Tales (Hampstead Studio), The Hostage, Present Tense (Southwark Playhouse), Faustus (Watford Palace, Tour), Faithless Bitches(Courtyard), FAT (The Oval House), Just Me Bell (Graeae, Tour), Blue Heaven (Finborough), Pitching In (Latitude Festival, Tour), I Can Sing A Rainbow with Nabokov and Sheffield Theatres (Lyceum Sheffield), Pendulum (Jermyn Street), Journalist and Hope (ICA London), Machinal (Central), Bar Of Ideas (Paradise Gardens Festival and Glastonbury/Shangri-La).
Theatre for the Bush includes: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.
Other theatre includes: Stacy (Trafalgar Studios); On The Ceiling (Garrick); Billy Liar (ATG); Notes on Falling Leaves, Presence (Royal Court).
TV includes: Married Single Other, Massive, Miss Marple, Robin Hood, Heartbeat, The Royle Family, Brief Encounters, Two Pints of Lager & A Packet of Crisps, The Eustace Bros, Pear Shaped North Face of the Eiger, Paradise Heights, The Bill, Always & Everyone, Flint Street Nativity, Bostockis Cup.
Film includes: Powder, Telstar, The Waiting Room, Frozen, 24 Hour Party People, Al’s Lads.
