Chris Bush's other plays include Rock/Paper/Scissors (Sheffield Theatres), Hungry (Paines Plough/UK tour) and Faustus: That Damned Woman (Headlong/Lyric Hammersmith). She wrote the book for Standing at the Sky's Edge (Sheffield Theatres/National Theatre/West End), with songs by Richard Hawley, which won Best New Musical at the Olivier Awards and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Theatre.

'A riveting and resonant account of a classic... Bush's text is clean, clear and sharp, and only slightly modernised. Her adaptation honours its source without being stuck in a fusty, dusty past... Nora's journey to self-awareness is thrillingly charted. It culminates in a quietly devastating confrontation'