LIKE other recent examples of politically charged theatre at the Bush — Arinz Kene’s Misty and  Outbox Theatre’s And The Rest of Me Floats spring to mind —   I Wanna Be Yours is in a challenging vein.

Zia Ahmed’s debut work takes the apparent simplicity of a love story and spins it into something both epic and whimsical as it explores how deeply ingrained racism is, how bad we are at interrogating the detail of it and just how much of it there is around — even, or perhaps especially, in creative communities where one might expect better.

The play tells the story of actor Ella (Emily Stott), who meets poet Haseeb (Ragevan Vasan) at a workshop. Their attraction, vibrantly brought to life by both perfomers, is instant.