Cast details released for 'Global Majority' at Bush Theatre

Global Majority, a new play by Tony Craze Award-winning writer Chris Fung (The Society for New Cuisine), opens at the Bush Theatre on 25 November (press night 1 December). An exhilarating, unflinching thriller of twisted family loyalty and cabalistic elites. What are we prepared to sacrifice for

proximity to power? Global Majority is directed by Rupert Hands (End of the Rainbow).

‘Can you feel the revolt? It’s coming.’

A chair, a candidate, a thousand eyes.

Brian Tran is being interviewed. If he succeeds, he could become the world's most powerful leader. But as the interview tests become increasingly brutal, Brian is forced to face what might happen if he fails.

As global trust in politicians and democratic institutions experiences long-term, widespread decline, Global Majority dissects what must be sacrificed to be accepted into power.

Writer Chris Fung is the resident Associate Artist for Ransack Theatre 26/27. His credits as a writer include The Society for New Cuisine directed by Rupert Hands (Edinburgh Fringe 2023, Omnibus Theatre 2025); Frank and Jen directed by Rupert Hands (in development); Around the World in 80 Days directed by Tara Noonan (UK Tour 2026); and Those Who Can’t Teach ( in development). As a performer, he has appeared in The Society for New Cuisine (Edinburgh Fringe and Omnibus); Frozen (West End); Cyrano de Bergerac (West End and NT Live); Your Lie in April (West End); The King and I (tour). Writing Schemes and Awards include Tony Craze Award Winner 2026 (for Frank and Jen), The Ilfeld Prize Winner 2026 (for Global Majority), Offies Assessor’s Choice 2025 (for Society for New Cuisine), Criterion New Writing Program 2026; Soho Writers Lab 25/26, New Earth Writers 2025; ATG Musical Theatre Writers 2026; Offies Assessor’s Choice 2025; Five Fringe Theatre Award Nominations; OffFest Best Solo Show Nom 2023 (all for The Society for New Cuisine); Rafia Hussain Productions Early Commission (for Frank and Jen); Affiliate Playwright Pint-Sized Theatre; Junior Member – League of Independent Producers, Projekt Europa – Mentorship Scheme 26/27. Chris is the director of Camino Meets, a free dramaturgical development community for low socioeconomic London Playwrights.

Director Rupert Hands’ credits as a Director include End of the Rainbow (Soho Walthamstow); The Phantom of the Opera (ArtsEd); American Saviour (NYC, Workshop); Roam (Shaftesbury); West Side Story (Birmingham Hippodrome); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (London Palladium/Tokyu Theatre Orb); Wendy and Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse); Love Life (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); The Society for New Cuisine (Omnibus); Otto Weidt (Workshop, Leeds Playhouse); Global Majority (Workshop); Dirty Hearts (Old Red Lion); Blackbird (The Other Room); The Secret Garden (Ambassadors); Crazy For You, High Society (ArtsEd); Songs For a New World, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Oh What a Lovely War, Candide (all Mountview); Carrie, Edward II, Spring Awakening, Company, Between Riverside and Crazy (all RWCMD); Pericles, Greenland (LAMDA). He was Associate Director on Evita (Palladium); Sunset Boulevard (St.James, Broadway/Savoy); Cyrano de Bergerac (Playhouse/Pinter).

Jeremy Ang Jones plays Brian Tran. Jeremy’s theatre work includes Titus Andronicus (RSC, Hampstead Theatre); Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Faction Theatre Company, Wilton's Music Hall, London); Richard III (The Faction Theatre Company, New Diorama Theatre, London); Clockwork Canaries (Theatre Royal, Plymouth) and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre, London). Film work includes Three Little Words; Havoc; American Sweatshop; The Chronology of Water and The Outpost. Television work includes Hijack; Grantchester; Stay Close; Jade Armor; In From The Cold; Chimerica; White Dragon; and Stath Lets Flats. Audio drama and Radio work includes The Postal Vote; The Three Musketeers; Doctor Who: Vampire Weekend; Our Mutual Friend; Halfway; Dragons of the Pool; Doctor Who: Sontarans vs Rutans; Doctor Who: The Secrets of Detsen; Cicero: The Crossroads; Torchwood: Red Base; The Disappearance of Mr Chan; 5 Hour Car Ride to Jaipur; and Doctor Who 257. Notable Games include Control Resonant; 007 First Light; Saros; Wuthering Waves; Squadron 42; Blackmyth: Wukong; Alan Wake II; Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker; and Total War: Three Kingdoms.

Edward Baker-Duty plays Jonathan Corwin. His work in theatre includes South Pacific and Here We Are (National Theatre); The King and I and The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium); Gone with the Wind (New London); West Side Story (Prince of Wales); Salad Days (Vaudeville); The Third Man, The Bridges of Madison County and Rookery Nook (Menier Chocolate Factory); Mr & Mrs Nobody (Jermyn Street); Anyone Can Whistle (Bridewell); Timing (King’s Head); How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical (Lowry, Manchester); Kiss Me, Kate (Sheffield Crucible); Copacabana (Watermill, Newbury); Noises Off (Birmingham Rep); Dick Barton, Special Agent (Nottingham Playhouse); On Broadway: The King and I and Peter and the Starcatcher off Broadway. UK tours of Here And Now, The Secretary Bird, September Tide and The Lady Vanishes. Pirates of Penzance (The Helix, Dublin); The Full Monty (Olympia, Dublin); Singin’ in the Rain (The Everyman, Cork); For South Africa, Oklahoma!, Crazy for You, Me and My Girl, A Chorus Line, Grease and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. TV includes Doctors, The Velveteen Rabbit, A Spy Among Friends, Litvinenko, Blacklist, Billions, Elementary, Downton Abbey, Emmerdale and Grange Hill. Film includes Vindicta, Boys in the Boat, De Lovely, Micromen, Gaming: Red Dead Redemption II, Grand Theft Auto, and Squadrons 42.

Cade Brannan plays Cotton Mather. Cade trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. His theatre credits include My Imaginary Friend and People Looking Up (Dovetail Theatre Company) and Hope This Helps (Pleasance).

Poppy Gilbert plays Josephine Corwin. Poppy has just wrapped on The Cadburys for Sony Pictures, UKTV and Britbox. Before that, she starred in Flyby by Theo Jamieson, a new musical at Southwark Playhouse. She can also be seen as ‘Elizabeth Bennet’ in the BBC’s adaptation of The Other Bennet Sister, returning for a Christmas Special later this year. Recent stage credits include Wedding Band at the Lyric Hammersmith, and ‘Desdemona’ in Othello at The Globe. Poppy’s also played ‘Cecilia’ in My Oxford Year (Netflix) opposite Sofia Carson and Corey Mylchreest; she led Channel 5 drama The Catch with Jason Watkins, ‘Chloe’ in Chloe (BBC1), and starred as fan-favourite ‘Barbie’ in Netflix’s Stay Close. Other credits include Perfect Addition (Amazon Prime Video), Sherwood (BBC1), & Leonardo (Amazon Prime Video).

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