Ripples Tickets at the Bush Theatre

What Tickets Cost

Tickets start from around £30, and the three previews from around £20. All-in pricing, the price you see is what you pay.

Performance Schedule

Previews are Thursday 21 to Saturday 23 January, evenings only. Press night is Monday 25 January at 7pm, and the first matinee is Wednesday 27 January. The last performance is Saturday 27 February at 8pm.

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Book Your Ripples Tickets

Five weeks in the Bush Studio, tickets from around £30. All-in pricing, the price you see is what you pay.

Book tickets • Call us on 020 7193 9050

Where to Sit

Ripples plays in the Studio, the smaller of the Bush's two spaces, so every seat is close to the stage. The Bush says audiences often have to cross the stage to reach their seats, one more reason to arrive early.

What's Ripples About?

Finish school, move to the big city, change the world: that's the plan. Then the letter comes, and the van, and he's taken from his family and told he is going to be deported. Lost in a system of surveillance and suspicion, he fights to hold on to who he is and to put the wrong right.

The Bush calls it "an urgent and electrifying interrogation of Britain's treatment of migrants and the relentless power of hope". It's written by Tafadzwa Muchenje, who also performs it, and Rosie MacPherson, who directs. Stand & Be Counted, a company that works with people seeking sanctuary, produces it, and the story is based on true events.

Who's Ripples For?

People who want new political theatre in a small space, and anyone following the debate about how Britain treats migrants. It's for 14 and over. The Bush's content list includes racism, the strain of the immigration system, an immigration-van chase and references to alcohol abuse, and there are loud noises, flashing lights and haze.

Ripples News and Reviews

Ripples starts previews at the Bush on 21 January 2027, with press night on 25 January. It's Muchenje's first play as a writer.

Cast and Creative Team

Tafadzwa Muchenje performs Ripples, which he co-wrote. He has worked with Stand & Be Counted since 2017.

Co-written and directed by Rosie MacPherson, Artistic Director of Stand & Be Counted. Music and sound by Lee Affen, movement by Zoe Katsilerou, video by Matt Powell and lighting by Charly Dunford. Presented by Stand & Be Counted in association with the Bush Theatre.

Getting to the Bush Theatre

The Bush is at 7 Uxbridge Road, W12 8LJ, in the old library building next to Shepherd's Bush Market. Shepherd's Bush Market station (Hammersmith & City and Circle lines) is about a minute away; Shepherd's Bush station on the Central line and the Overground are about six minutes' walk.

Buses stop right outside on Uxbridge Road and Shepherd's Bush Green: the 72, 94, 95, 148, 207, 220, 260, 272, 295 and SL8 all stop within about 150 metres, and the 237 stops on Shepherd's Bush Road, about three minutes away. More in our Bush Theatre guide.

Accessible Performances

There's a chilled performance on Wednesday 3 February, a captioned performance on Wednesday 10 February and an audio-described performance on Wednesday 17 February, all at 8pm. The Studio is on the ground floor, the front row is reached without steps, and a wheelchair space can be booked for every show. Access bookings are handled by the Bush's own team, not by us.

Accessible performances

• Relaxed performances: Wed 3 Feb 2027, 8:00pm
• Captioned performances: Wed 10 Feb 2027, 8:00pm
• Audio described performances: Wed 17 Feb 2027, 8:00pm

Access bookings are handled by the venue's own access team, not by us.

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