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The Olivier Award-winning play The P Word is back at the Bush Theatre, written and performed by 2021 Bursary recipient W...
10/06/2026

The Olivier Award-winning play The P Word is back at the Bush Theatre, written and performed by 2021 Bursary recipient Waleed Akhtar, a sharp-witted and devastating story that charts the parallel lives of two gay Pakistani men.

You can catch the show until the 27th June. Book now in the link below:
https://buff.ly/qtN2Ang

📸 Craig Fuller

09/06/2026

Em used their bursary to establish themselves as a freelance puppet maker, settling in a studio space at Puppet Place in the Bristol Harbourside and working on personal projects to find out what sort of puppet maker they are 🧶

DRAMATURGY THROUGH GENREwith Somebody JonesWriter and Dramaturg Somebody Jones will deliver a 3-hour online workshop loo...
26/05/2026

DRAMATURGY THROUGH GENRE
with Somebody Jones

Writer and Dramaturg Somebody Jones will deliver a 3-hour online workshop looking at dramaturgy through genre - using the unique tools of comedy, horror, magical realism, and surrealism to deepen character, sharpen conflict, and reshape storytelling.

Book your place now in the link below:
https://buff.ly/nZzf4SZ

What makes comedy increase tension rather than release it? How can magical elements complicate a story instead of simply decorating it? Why does horror make exposition feel so compelling? Through discussion, examples, and creative exercises, participants will experiment with genre as a dramaturgical engine rather than simply an aesthetic choice. The workshop is open to dramaturgs, writers, directors, theatre-makers, and anyone interested in the dramatugy of storytelling across genres.

📸 Common Thread Images

Foal is a lyrical, urgent new play about masculinity, compassion, and retribution written by Titas Halder and produced b...
21/05/2026

Foal is a lyrical, urgent new play about masculinity, compassion, and retribution written by Titas Halder and produced by 2019 Bursary recipient Hannah Farley-Hills. The show is currently running at the Finborough Theatre until the end of the month.

📸 Steve Gregson

Olivier Award-Nominated Choreographer Mark Smith will be leading a 3-hour workshop at Graeae Theatre Company on the 23rd...
18/05/2026

Olivier Award-Nominated Choreographer Mark Smith will be leading a 3-hour workshop at Graeae Theatre Company on the 23rd June, teaching how to incorporate sign language into movement for performers, dancers, movement directors, and choreographers.

Participants will explore signdance, which translates the spatial, dynamic qualities of sign language into vivid choreographic movement, creating a narrative that is highly visual and accessible for both Deaf and hearing audiences.

Book your place now in the link below:
https://buff.ly/nZzf4SZ

📸 Mikah Smillie

2024 Bursary recipient Rebecca Prentice brings I’m Not Being Funny to the Bush Theatre, a new play about hope, endings a...
12/05/2026

2024 Bursary recipient Rebecca Prentice brings I’m Not Being Funny to the Bush Theatre, a new play about hope, endings and how to survive if a knock knock joke hits you in the gut. The show also features lighting design by 2021 Bursary recipient Lucía Sánchez Roldán.

📸 Richard Lakos

Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, adapted for the stage by 2017 Bursary recipient Margaret Perry, has made its debut in German at ...
06/05/2026

Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, adapted for the stage by 2017 Bursary recipient Margaret Perry, has made its debut in German at Schaubühne Berlin this year, featuring video design by 2024 Bursary recipient Virginie Taylor.

Director Katie Mitchell uses methods from film and live audio drama to create a portrait of an unhappy obsession with the colour blue in multiple voices. The show will next play in Berlin at the end of June.

📸 Gianmarco Bresadola

23/04/2026

Book your ticket now for Isley Lynn's writing workshop next Wednesday 29th April, 6.30pm - 9.30pm. It will be over Zoom and Isley will cover everything you need to give structure to your writing in a way that never feels formulaic.

Tickets below:
https://buff.ly/amsSldg

22/04/2026

In our last podcast episode about Hope, Rachel Mars and Mark Smith discuss the mechanisms that theatre uses to transmit hope to an audience, including the embodied and affective nature of harmonies in musical theatre.

Listen now to the full podcast series of future Remixed: Universal Stories on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. Link below:
https://buff.ly/JHJc6XM

Two of our bursary recipients presented last month a work-in-progress sharing of a new project. Composed and performed b...
20/04/2026

Two of our bursary recipients presented last month a work-in-progress sharing of a new project. Composed and performed by Matthew Harvey, with book by Jasmin Mandi-Ghomi, Headroom is a two-hander actor-musician musical play that tells the story of estranged brother-sister songwriting duo Mark and Jane Taylor.

📸 Jamie Scott Smith

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