Author: Bryan J Mason

THEATRE IN BRISTOL DURING LOCKDOWN

It is difficult to see when theatres can open again until both audiences and performers are able to be safe. The immediate physicality of theatre is both its greatest strength and, in these strange times, its greatest weakness

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Review: AND SHE at the Wardrobe Theatre in Bristol

★★★★☆ Created and performed by the tremendous Hattie Eason, Cameron Sharp, and Rebecca Glendenning we explore how three very different offspring interact with their mothers from childhood to the current day. The evening starts out in rather brash fashion with the three actors taking to microphones and strutting their stuff in a shouty song.

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Review: RETURN TO HEAVEN at Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol

★★★★★ Contemporary dance, like contemporary theatre can take many guises.  To the unfamiliar it may appear baffling or overly technical or even, dare whisper it, pretentious.  It can also be thrilling, challenging and downright entertaining.  Thank goodness the Mark Bruce Company falls firmly in the latter category.

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Review: ANTIGONE in the Weston Studio at Bristol Old Vic

★★★★☆ The BOV Young Company is made up of young people aged 5-25 from across Bristol and together with the creative team deserves enormous praise for producing the first highlight of 2020.  They demonstrate the power of theatre and the abiding truth that even ancient stories can reveal about the human condition. 

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