Chris Fung's Global Majority, a thriller about a job interview for the most powerful post in the world, opens at the Bush Theatre on 25 November with Jeremy Ang Jones in the lead. Here is everything you need to know before you book.
The Bush Theatre's 2026-27 season, the first under its Artistic Director Taio Lawson, brings eight plays to the building's two stages, and Global Majority is the one that holds the main house across Christmas. Written by Chris Fung and directed by Rupert Hands, it runs in the Holloway Theatre at the Bush Theatre from Wednesday 25 November 2026 to Saturday 16 January 2027.
Who is starring in Global Majority?
Jeremy Ang Jones plays Brian Tran, the candidate at the centre of the play. Edward Baker-Duly plays Jonathan Corwin and Poppy Gilbert plays Josephine Corwin, with Cade Brannan as Cotton Mather.
Baker-Duly's stage credits include South Pacific and Here We Are at the National Theatre and The King and I at the London Palladium and on Broadway. Gilbert played Desdemona in Othello at the Globe and is known to television audiences as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC's The Other Bennet Sister. Brannan, who trained at Mountview, makes a professional stage debut in the play.
Spotlight on Jeremy Ang Jones
Screen audiences are most likely to know Jeremy Ang Jones from the Apple TV thriller Hijack, and the television credits also take in Grantchester, Stay Close and Chimerica. The stage work is no less varied: Titus Andronicus for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Hampstead Theatre, Clockwork Canaries at the Theatre Royal Plymouth, Shakespeare with The Faction at Wilton's Music Hall and the New Diorama Theatre, and a place in the company of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace Theatre. Brian Tran is a demanding part in a four-hander: the character is under examination from the first moment to the last, and the evening turns on how much of himself he will trade for the job. It is the role that carries Global Majority, and it gives Ang Jones the whole stage.
What is Global Majority about?
Brian Tran is attending an interview unlike any other. Should he pass, he will become the most powerful leader in the world. The tests grow harsher as the evening goes on, and Brian is made to confront what failure might cost him, and how much of himself he is prepared to give up in the pursuit of power.
The Bush bills it as Black Mirror meets Succession, and the territory is political: dystopian technology, closed elites, family loyalty bent out of shape and impossible moral choices. Beneath the thriller sit larger questions about who is permitted to hold power, what success costs, whether a system can be changed from within, and what happens when identity itself becomes political currency. The title refers to the fact that people of African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and Indigenous heritage are not a minority at all: together they make up most of the world's population.
Who is behind the production?
Rupert Hands directs. Hands's recent productions include End of the Rainbow at Soho Theatre Walthamstow and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the London Palladium, and the associate director credits include Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy Theatre and on Broadway, and Evita at the Palladium. Hands also directed Fung's first play, The Society for New Cuisine, at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023 and at Omnibus Theatre in 2025.
Chris Fung is a writer and performer whose acting work includes Frozen and Cyrano de Bergerac in the West End. Global Majority won the Ilfeld Prize in 2026, the year Fung also received the Tony Craze Award for another play, Frank and Jen.
The set and costumes are designed by Peiyao Wang, a recipient of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design in 2023, with lighting by Simeon Miller. Kev McCurdy is fight director, casting is by Stuart Burt and Yanni Ng is assistant director. The play is a co-production between Fun Guy Theatre, Gabriella Sills Productions and the Bush Theatre, supported by the Royal Victoria Hall Foundation.
When and where can I see it?
Global Majority runs in the Holloway Theatre, the Bush Theatre's main space at 7 Uxbridge Road in Shepherd's Bush, from Wednesday 25 November 2026 to Saturday 16 January 2027. Press night is Tuesday 1 December 2026 at 7pm. Evening performances start at 7.30pm, with selected matinees at 2.30pm. The play is recommended for ages 16 and over, and contains loud noises, flashing lights, moments of darkness and haze.
The run carries a full set of access performances: relaxed performances on Saturday 12 December 2026 (2.30pm) and Thursday 7 January 2027; BSL-interpreted performances on Wednesday 16 December 2026 (2.30pm) and Friday 8 January 2027; captioned performances on Thursday 17 December 2026 and Saturday 9 January 2027 (2.30pm); and audio-described performances on Saturday 19 December 2026 (2.30pm) and Monday 11 January 2027.
Tickets currently start at £12, and Global Majority is booking now.
What else should I book if I like it?
- Eurotrash at the Young Vic, from 13 November 2026 to 9 January 2027, follows a mother determined to give away a family fortune built on arms and dairy: another play about what money and power do to a family.
- Speculations at the Marylebone Theatre, until 17 January 2027, is Torben Betts's thriller about a reporter who would not accept the official story of three famous American deaths.
- Hamlet Hail to the Thief at the Barbican Theatre, until 23 January 2027, turns Elsinore into a surveillance state, scored with Radiohead's music.
- Nero at Southwark Playhouse Elephant, until 5 December 2026, is a new musical about a young man who inherits an empire he never wanted, and about the line between celebrity and political power.
