NOW EXTENDED UNTIL 18th FEBRUARY
Sometimes we have to take care of things we’re frightened of… You can’t know if you’re up to the job until that thing in front of you lives or dies.
Behind the shiny door of Hazel Robinson’s perfect London home, nothing is as it seems. Hazel’s plastic surgeon husband Richard has embarked on his latest charitable quest in Haiti, leaving the heavily-pregnant Hazel with a failing business and a problem son.
When a professional nanny arrives unannounced on the Robinsons’ doorstep, Hazel finds her home under the shadow of a perfect stranger with an agenda of her own.
Hot on the heels of No Romance, Nancy Harris’s hit play at the Abbey, Our New Girl is a startling psychological drama about the darker side of modern parenthood.
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Charlotte joined The Bush as a Creative Associate in 2008; directing Nancy Harris’s ‘Little Dolls’ as part of The Bush’s Broken Space Season.
Charlotte is also the Founder and Artistic Director of ANGLE Theatre; where she initiated a project that actively targeted raw, local and talented writers from across three boroughs in East London. This led to: TriANGLE09 at Hackney Empire; ANGLE’s inaugural new play season, where she directed ‘Commercial Rd ‘ and ‘The Sea at Night’; and which won a Peter Brook Award in 2008.
Before coming to the Bush, Charlotte was Director on Attachment at The National Theatre Studio where she directed new plays such as: ‘Love in a Glass Jar’ by Nancy Harris, and ‘Lobster’ by Russell Barr; and her past directing credits include: a revival of ‘Knives and Hens’ by David Harrower for Bath Theatre Royal, ‘The Confederate’ by Simon Bent a new play, inspired by Hurricane Katrina (Paines Plough/Trafalgar Studios,) ‘Men Should Weep’ by Ena Lamont Stewart (Oxford Stage Company/The Citizens Theatre,) ‘Riders to The Sea, The Shadow of the Glen and The Tinkers Wedding’ by JM Synge and ‘Everything Must Go’ by Stephen Sharkey (The Southwark Playhouse,) ‘The Blood of Others ‘(The Arcola Theatre,)’The Conservatory’ (The Old Red Lion Theatre,) and ‘The Country of the Blind’ (The Gate Theatre.)
Charlotte began her career as an Assistant Director at The Royal Court Theatre, The Gate and at Theatre Gerard-Phillippe in Paris, before being invited to join the National Theatre Studio Directors course. The Bush Theatre has always been a goldmine of new writers and a major source of inspiration for Charlotte; and she is thrilled and delighted to be part of its team.
ELIZABETH PURNELL
Music and sound design
Started writing music for theatre in 1993 when she was resident composer for Kaos Theatre in Cirencester for four years. She often works at the Tobacco Factory Theatre in Bristol, having written music for thirteen productions by the award winning Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, including Hamlet, directed by Jonathan Miller. Work there also includes Treasure Island, Woyzeck, The Camp, Huckleberry Finn, The Wills’ Girls, Robin Hood, A Christmas Carol, School for Wives. Other work includes Knives in Hens (Ustinov), Kindertransport (Aberystwyth), three shows for Angle Theatre (Hackney Empire), The Misanthrope (Bristol Old Vic), orchestrations for The Kitchen (National Theatre). She plays trombone and also works as an orchestrator for feature film music and writes music for TV and Radio 4 drama.
Lighting for the Bush: Apologia, Wrecks, Artefacts (also New York), How to Curse, and the space lighting concept for The Library, the initial 2010 season in the Bush’s new building.
Other UK theatre includes The Voysey Inheritance, Elmina’s Kitchen, Scenes from the Big Picture for the National Theatre; Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Coriolanus (also USA), and The Merchant of Venice for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Lower Ninth, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Days of Wine and Roses, Passion Play and Good for the Donmar; Gaslight and As You Like It at the Old Vic; Mrs Warren’s Profession at the Strand Theatre; The York Realist for the English Touring Theatre/Royal Court; and Love, Love, Love for Paines Plough. Other London theatre includes Faith (Royal Court); Certain Young Men, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Tongue of a Bird (Almeida); The Rubenstein Kiss (Hampstead); The Field (Tricycle); Nakamitsu (Gate); and The White Devil, The Common Pursuit, Total Eclipse (Menier Chocolate Factory). UK regional theatre includes The Birthday Party (Birmingham Rep); Arcadia, The Rivals, Loot, Paradise Lost, The Comedy of Errors, The Caretaker (Bristol Old Vic); A Number, Gladiator Games (also London), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Original Sin, The Tempest, Don Juan, The Country Wife, A View From the Bridge, As You Like It (also London), Twelfth Night (Sheffield Theatres); Rutherford and Son (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Where There’s a Will (Theatre Royal Bath Productions); Treehouses (Northcott, Exeter); Dealer’s Choice (Clwyd Teatr Cymru); Dealer’s Choice (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
Australian theatre includes In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play (Sydney Theatre Company), The Gift (Melbourne Theatre Company), The Story of Mary MacLane by Herself (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne), and Cordelia (Little Dove Theatre Art, Canberra). European theatre includes Great Expectations and American Buffalo (Gate, Dublin) and Hysteria (English Theatre, Frankfurt).
Musicals include the Menier Chocolate Factory production of A Little Night Music on Broadway (Walter Kerr) and in London’s West End (Garrick); Miss Saigon (Gothenburg Opera); Showboat, West Side Story (Tiroler Landesteater, Innsbruck); Promises, Promises (Sheffield); The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham); and Assassins (Oxford). Opera includes: Mary Seacole, Oreste, and Oresteia (Royal Opera House Linbury Studio); Les Pêcheurs des Perles and Iris (Opera Holland Park, London); and M Butterfly, Martha, The Barber of Seville, La Sonnambula, Carmen (Castleward Opera, Northern Ireland).
Hartley is also artistic director of C venues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Morgan trained at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
Recent Designs include: Othello, Lives in Art, (Sheffield Crucible), Macbeth (Singapore Rep, Fort Canning Park), Midnight Tango, (West End and tour) and Flashdance (West End).
Other designs include: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF [West End- Olivier Award, Best Revival], FOOTLOOSE[West End, tour, S. Africa], ROOM ON THE BROOM [Worldwide], THE HOSTAGE [Southwark Playhouse], OLIVIER AWARDS [2006-2011], PLANET WONDERFUL [Royal Danish Ballet], DOV AND ALI [503], MADAGASCAR [503].
Forthcoming Designs include: THE LAST HORSEMAN [Madrid], THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK [tour], MONKEE BUSINESS [tour], THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE (tour)
Nancy Harris’ theatre credits include Our New Girl and Little Dolls (Bush Theatre), BADDIES: The Musical (Unicorn Theatre), No Romance (Peacock Theatre), Journey to X (National Theatre Connections), The Man With The Disturbingly Smelly Foot: A Version of ‘Philoctetes’ by Sophocles for children (Unicorn Theatre), The Kreutzer Sonata (Gate Theatre), Love in a Glass Jar (Peacock Theatre). She has also had numerous productions of her work staged in internationally. Nancy received The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and The Stewart Parker Award for her debut full- length play No Romance in 2012. She was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize that same year and was long-listed for an Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award in 2013 for Our New Girl. She also writes for film and television and was nominated for a BAFTA in the Breakthrough Talent category in 2014 for her writing on the Channel 4 series DATES.
Mark Bazeley’s work in the theatre includes: The Seagull (National Theatre), Death of a Salesman (Lyric Theatre, West End), Suddenly Last Summer (West End, Sheffield Theatre, No 1 tour), Macbeth (Albery Theatre), Homebody/Kabul (Young Vic), Antarctica (Savoy Theatre), The Real Thing (Donmar), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Glasgow Citizens), Richard III, Julius Caesar, The Devil is an Ass (all at the Royal Shakespeare Company), Measure for Measure (Cheek by Jowl), Romeo and Juliet and The Soldiers (both at Glasgow Citizens Theatre).
Bazeley has also worked extensively in television. His credits include The Body Farm, The Accused, Mistresses, Hustle, Stacked, Spooks, The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall and Prime Suspect. Bazeley has also appeared in the films The Special Relationship, The Bourne Ultimatum and The Queen, as well as radio series The Raj Quartet, The Pillow Book, The Frederica Quartet and The Pallisers.
Denise Gough plays Annie. Her theatre work includes Ahasverus (RSC), The Painter (Arcola Theatre), Plough and the Stars (Abbey Theatre), Jesus Hopped the A Train (Trafalgar Studios), The Birds (Gate Theatre, Dublin) and Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre, Gielgud Theatre). For television, her credits include, Titanic: Blood and Steel, Waking the Dead, Silent Witness, Messiah and Tell Me Lies; and for film, The Kid, Robin Hood and Desire.
Theatre includes: London Road (National Theatre); Life is a Dream, Hecuba (Donmar Warehouse); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre, Gielgud Theatre, BAM, Lyceum Theater – Broadway); Twelfth Night (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Winter’s Tale, Pericles (Royal Shakespeare Company); Othello (Northampton Theatre Royal); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic); Love’s Labour’s Lost (National Theatre).
Television includes: Touch of Cloth, Sarah-Jane Adventures, Waking the Dead, Hustle.
Film includes: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, 77 Beds, Vanity Fair.
Theatre includes: Les Miserables (Queens Theatre); Oliver! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane).
Television includes: an advert for Atlas Editions (Sky Television), a David Suchet documentary (ITV).
Jonathan attends full-time theatre school at Italia Conti, and aspires to be a skateboarding champion or a video games designer.
Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Daffodil Scissors (Italia Conti Associate Theatre).
Television includes: Annabel’s Kitchen (CITV), a music video for H the City Kid (MTV), and two commercials for Leap Pad.
Film includes: The Piano Player.
Jude is a keen musician who has played jazz piano in two public concerts. He loves acting, and hopes to do this later in life, as well as being a pilot. Jude attends Italia Conti Associate School in Clapham, where he studies acting, singing and dance. He is 10 years old.
