TO PROVIDE ALL PEOPLE.
25th June – 2nd July.
★★★★☆ 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 . . .
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★★★★☆ In these socially distanced times, what could be more relevant than a play about connectivity? Buzzing was written by Anita Karla Kelly as part of Graeae Theatre Company’s ‘Write to Play’ programme, and there was a time when the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School was looking forward to presenting it as a stage production in the Bristol Old Vic’s Weston Studio.
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★★★★☆ This is a dazzling ballet, chock-full of spectacle, high drama and wonderful dancing. The idea of a girl condemned to dance non-stop comes originally from Hans Christian Andersen’s sternly moral story of a peasant girl called Karen, who is so enamoured of her new red shoes that she dares to wear them to church.
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Our reviewer MIKE WHITTON looks back over the past six years and the 170 shows he has seen on our behalf in Bristol and Bath. He reveals a dislike for juke box musicals and pantomime but is happy to see everything by the Welsh National Opera, Matthew Bourne or absolutely anything starring Audrey Brisson . . .
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★★★★★ What is ‘realistic’ about these Joneses lies not merely their surface naturalism, but in the way that, in their desperation and in their need for each other, they speak movingly of our shared mortality.
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