“A garden without a traditional English rose is a cardinal sin – and I committed eight of those before my Ready Brek. – D x”
Soil-soaked jeans and dirt under their fingernails, 19-year-old Pip is trying to find themself through gardening. But with a Dad more interested in plants than people and a Mum stuck in the past, they’re left to ponder life’s questions alone.
Until one day, they uncover a jacket in the attic that’s been gathering dust. Bold, vibrant and very 80s, in its pocket lies a diary belonging to someone long gone. Swept up in the mystery, Pip is determined to dig into the past, unearthing secrets about an old friend their Mum and Dad don’t want to talk about…
Funny, affecting and beautifully queer, Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew journeys through one family’s efforts to reconcile the past to plant the seeds of a better future. This world-premiere production is written by Bush Emerging Writers’ Group alumni Coral Wylie, directed by Debbie Hannan (Overflow), and with a cast including the writer alongside BAFTA and Olivier Award nominee Omari Douglas (It’s a Sin, Constellations).
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Debbie Hannan writes and directs for stage and screen. They are currently Associate Director at National Theatre of Scotland, and Associate Artist at Cardboard Citizens. They were formerly Interim Artistic Director at Stockroom, theatre’s first writers room. They trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and as Trainee Director at the Royal Court, and recently joined the board of Theatre Uncut.
They have directed at theatres such as the Royal Court Theatre, the Young Vic, the Bush Theatre, Soho Theatre, the Royal Exchange (Manchester), the Tron Theatre (Glasgow), the Citizens Theatre (Glasgow), the Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh) and has worked with companies such as Complicité, Clean Break, Sonia Friedman Productions and Paines Plough, including winning an Olivier as Associate Director for Best Revival of Constellations on the West End.
Credits include Sound of the Underground (Royal Court), The Panopticon (National Theatre of Scotland) and Overflow (Bush Theatre). They received the Genesis New Director’s Award, and an MGC Futures Bursary. As a writer, they have been commissioned by Cardboard Citizens for the More Than One Story project, were recently shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Playwriting Award, are writing a new musical developed by Northern Stage, and are adapting a children’s book for the Unicorn Theatre.
Debbie has directed a short produced by Film4 and 104 Films, co-written with Matilda Ibini, which screened at London Film Festival 2023. They were Shadow Director on Shetland Season 6 & 7, and are developing a feature on a BFI Creative Challenge Lab. Debbie is now writing their first feature, with research supported by the Miles Ketley Memorial Fund.
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For the Bush: Olivier Award winning Sleepova, and The P Word, Olivier nominated A Playlist for The Revolution, and The Real Ones.
Theatre includes: G (Royal Court), The Comeuppance (Almeida), The Flea, Samuel Takes a Break, Multiple Casualty Incident (The Yard), Sweat (Royal Exchange, Manchester).
Lighting Designer Laura Howard trained at LAMDA as a recipient of the William and Katherine Longman Charitable Trust Scholarship. Laura’s previous credits for the Bush Theatre: Invisible, Clutch, Elephant and The Kola Nut Does Not Speak English.
Max Johns trained in theatre design at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and was the recipient of a BBC Performing Arts Fellowship in 2015, and prior to this he worked for a number of years as a designer in Germany.
His most recent UK productions include: costume design for Why Am I So Single? (Garrick); The Duchess [Of Malfi] co-design with Tom Piper (The Trafalgar); As You Like It (Globe), Sound Of The Underground co-design with Rosie Elnile (Royal Court); Choir Boy and Birthmarked (Bristol Old Vic); The Climbers (Theatre by the Lake); The P Word, Overflow, Strange Fruit and Rust (Bush); The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart (Manchester Royal Exchange); Once Upon A Time In Nazi Occupied Tunisia (Almeida); King John (RSC); The Panopticon (National Scotland); Lord Of The Flies, Kes and Random (Leeds Playhouse); Heartbreakin’ (WLB Esslingen, Germany); Buggy Baby (Yard); Yellowman (Young Vic); The Half God Of Rainfall (Kiln/Birmingham Rep/Fuel); Urinetown (Central School of Speech and Drama); Wendy And Peter Pan (The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); Utility and Twelfth Night (Orange Tree); Fidelio (London Philharmonic Orchestra); Enron and Our Town (the Egg); Life Raft, Medusa, The Light Burns Blue and Under A Cardboard Sea (Bristol Old Vic) and; Hamlet and All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory).
Rebecca Natalini graduated with a BA in Stage Management from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and is currently working at the Bush Theatre for the second time after working on The Real Ones in 2024.
Recent stage management theatre credits include: The Real Ones (Bush Theatre), Pride and Prejudice, Scenes from RENT – A Staged Performance (Curve), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Diorama), Zoe’s Peculiar Journey Through Time (UK and Norway tour), Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) (UK tour).
