REVIEW: ⭐️⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Speed📍Bush Theatre

Exceptional creative duo Milli Bhatia & Zain Dada bring a blisteringly hilarious piece taking a mundane speed awareness course and then accelerate it into a first-class drama for the ages.

By Hamza Jahanzeb | 14 April 2025

Speed demons, eh? What is it about them that makes ‘em zip past you on the road, like there’s no turning back. We all know one and that is why it’s such a pertinent topic and the central theme of Speed, written by Zain Dada and directed by Milli Bhatia. It’s the Olivier award-nominated duo’s first appearance at this west London venue having marvelled the ‘Sloanies’ at the Royal Court with Blue Mist: and boy, do I wish they’d make themselves at home in this space as the coupling of this double whammy of rising talent in the London theatre is something of an excitement for us the way drama can be portrayed, and with this latest project, this team do not miss a beat and reach heights only previously achieved with Waleed Akhtar’s The P Word.

The Holloway Theatre space - for those who are unfamiliar with having been the Bush to which I would say simply rectify that immediately - is housed within the larger of the two auditoriums at the Bush theatre typically seating between 160 - 220 audience members per show. Instead of having a theatre staged in the round or a proscenium arch, audience members sit either side of the traverse stage.