Bush Theatre

Isabella Way will be a familiar face to fans of Bridgerton as Posey Lee and the daughter of the murdered Chinese ambassador in Black Doves.

She's now on stage at the Bush Theatre in The Hungry Ghost, only till the 30th episode gets on, and we asked her our five questions.

My name is Isabella Way and you're listening to the London Theatre Review.

Best performance or show I've ever seen on stage and why? One of the best performances I've seen or I've ever seen on stage was Amy Lennox in Cabaret.

Aside from that, we also eat a lot of chocolate, which is probably not the right thing for us to do.

But hey, it works for us.

What is your show? What is it about? And who do I play? My show is The Hungry Ghost at the Bush Theatre on until October 31st, and I play Ghost.

It's a horror comedy about a girl who ignores her mother's superstitions around the Hungry Ghost Festival and unwittingly invites a hungry ghost into her life and her body instead.

listing.

What have you got? Well, I quickly wanted to flag Orinze Kenny's solo show, Misty, that opened at the Bush Theatre, then moved to Trafalgar Studios in 2018, nominated for Best New Play and Best Actor at the Olivier's.

Really, it's a play confronting Kenny's experiences, seeing London being transformed as a city through gentrification, a conversation that I think...

in the intervening eight years has not gone away, but perhaps there's been a resignation that gentrification has done its worst to London and now we just have to live with all these very homogenous looking glass buildings everywhere we go.

I mean, that's not his middle name here.

For our interview this week, Nick Curtis spoke to Stranger Things star Linnea Berthelsen, who is currently on stage at the Bush Theatre in Darkling.

And Jamel Westman, the star of Table 17 at the Kiln, answers our five questions.

Now, this week we've had our first ever watch party with Marquee TV, the expert curated streaming platform for arts and culture of Macbeth, recorded at the Donmar Warehouse.

Marina Mazzucato on stage or something.

Standard of Living is at the Theatre Royal Haymarket until December the 12th.

Now, you'll know Linnea Berthelsen most likely from her role as Callie or Eight in the Netflix series Stranger Things, but she has recently made her UK theatre debut in the one-woman show Darkling at the Bush Theatre.

Nick Curtis met her.

I'm loving the part.

But also, I haven't done a play, and I realize in 10 years, 2016, I did a play at the Bush Theatre, and that, so it's 10 years.

And rehearsal is wonderful, because you can, you can, you can take risks, and you're discovering it.

And, and like the other day, and we've only had a week.

He won an Olivier Award in 2023 for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for his work Enewate.

And he's branched out and worked with the Scottish Ballet, the Barbican, the Bush Theatre, the Lowry, the Royal Ballet and the Northern Ballet.

And he has a new show about to open at the Sadler's Wells East in London in October.

Here is me with Dixon Mbai.