House of Ife

The Bush Theatre’s yearlong fiftieth birthday season gets underway with Ethiopian-British writer Beru Tessema’s drama about the traumas that emerge when a family’s eldest son dies suddenly in north London, leading to an explosive series of revelations and culture clashes when the head of the family arrives from Ethiopia for the funeral. Bush boss Lynette Linton directs a cast of Jude Akuwudike, Yohanna Ephrem, Sarah Priddy, Karla-Simone Spence, and Michael Workeye.