5 – 7 June
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School’s 19th Summer Festival presents a double bill of:
DEPOSIT by Matt Hartley
We’ve become savages, trampling over each other for a tiny bit of grass!”
Rachel and Ben want to buy their own place; as do their friends, Melanie and Sam. But with rising rental costs, cost-of-living crises and stagnant pay structures, saving for a deposit seems impossible. The solution? Sharing a one-bed flat between the four of them. But with
paper thin walls and space growing sparser by the day, which will they sacrifice first – the friendship, the relationship or the dream of buying their own property?
An all-too relatable black comedy about ‘Generation Rent’ and lengths they will go to to get that first step on the property ladder.
REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN by Alice Birch
“Act appropriately. Don’t break the rules. Just behave.”
Spoiler alert: This play does none of the above. Alice Birch exposes and obliterates the scripts we’re told to follow in this George Devine award-winning play, described by the Daily Telegraph as “a cluster-bomb of subversion”. Revolt is a series of intimate, sharp and darkly funny vignettes where language, behaviour and power collide, grieving the inherited violence that shapes womanhood.
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