★★★★☆ For a while it looked as though this show would have a real ‘live’ audience at the Redgrave, but sadly it was not to be. That is a great shame, for this production of Far From The Madding Crowd is gorgeous to look at and choc-full of excellent performances.
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★★★★☆ Throughout the current crisis, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School has demonstrated an admirable determination to fulfil the old dictum that the show must go on. Their latest brave riposte to the closure of theatres is this production of Lucy Kirkwood’s Hedda, her updated version of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, streamed live from the Bristol Old Vic.
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★★★★☆ Once again, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School has demonstrated great resourcefulness when responding to the challenges presented by the current pandemic. Directed by Aaron Parsons and recorded live in the Redgrave Theatre, this ‘Covid-secure’ Pericles features thirteen performers, all graduates of the MA Professional Acting course.
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TO PROVIDE ALL PEOPLE. 25th June
★★★★☆ Owen Sheers’ poem-play To Provide All People was originally written in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the NHS. It was premiered in 2018 in a star-studded BBC film, directed by Pip Broughton. Back then it had important things to say about our much-cherished, much-abused health service, but the Covid-19 crisis has surely intensified its relevance.
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62 SPERM WHALES
★★★★☆ Seven actors in seven different locations scattered across the country, perform a play that places all seven characters on the same beach of a small coastal town at the same time. It shouldn’t work, but thanks to the technical skills of what in normal circumstances would be called the backstage team, somehow it all comes together.
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