Miss Myrtle's Garden Tickets

By: Danny James King
Director: Taio Lawson

Miss Myrtle's Garden is a play by Danny James King (Bounty).

As he said, "Miss Myrtle is a unique theatrical character at the centre of the action on stage. She is an elderly, first-generation Jamaican woman who invites the audience into her inner world; however, it soon becomes apparent that, due to her dementia, she is not the most reliable narrator. Her world is disrupted by her Queer grandson and his partner's arrival and then further rattled by the neighbourhood drunk and ghosts from the past."

Miss Myrtle's Garden in London has a talented creative team that includes direction by Taio Lawson (Hamilton), set and costume design by Khadija Raza (The Unknown Island), lighting design by Joshua Gadsby (Who Killed My Father (Tron & UK Tour)), and sound design by Dan Balfour (Dear England).

What to watch for

• Writer Danny James King’s first play Bounty, was runner-up at the Alfred Fagon Awards.
• Before becoming a full-time writer, Danny James King worked in The House of Commons, where he worked with a variety of MPs, and he also spent 2016 in New York working at Out Magazine. These experiences have helped influence his writing.
• Director Taio Lawson is the incoming new Bush Theatre Artistic Director.
• Outgoing Bush Theatre Artistic Director Lynette Linton said of the play, “Dementia, particularly in the Black community and in the Caribbean community, is a conversation that we need to talk about more…It’s affecting so many people … let’s talk about it now and let’s give people the support they need.”