Author: Mike Whitton

LONDON ROAD at the Bristol Old Vic Studio

“…In Nicholas Bone’s production for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School twelve actors play the residents of London Road, ordinary people who have had to come to terms with the knowledge that a serial killer has been living in their street…This is a very entertaining, unusual and thought-provoking production. Strongly recommended.”

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BLUE STOCKINGS at Bristol Tobacco Factory

“…takes us back to Cambridge in 1896. Girton College has been the first to admit women students, but though they are permitted to study they are not necessarily welcome at lectures and they do not have the right to graduate…BLUE STOCKINGS is full of astonishing information about the prejudices women had to overcome in the past, but it also serves to remind us that inequalities remain. Go see it. You will be entertained – and educated!”

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BRISTOL OLD VIC THEATRE SCHOOL – Directors’ Cuts Season

presented by the four graduating directors and features work by current acting and production students. The season concludes with DUTCHMAN by LeRoi Jones, a tale of seduction aboard the New York subway. There are two characters: Lula, a young white woman, and Clay, a black middle-class man…she comes aboard, eating an apple. He seems quiet and bookish, but she is sexy and provocative, embarrassingly forthright in her apparent desire to seduce her quiet, respectable fellow passenger.

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UNDER THE DARK MOON at Bristol Old Vic

“…is a highly original show that explores the seven performers’ own experiences as a series of dark, interweaving fairy tales told through the medium of contemporary circus. Visually it has a restrained, cool beauty, making effective use of a subdued, near monochrome palette. The costumes have a gothic charm reminiscent of the films of Tim Burton, for like him, designer Wim Penhaul has found inspiration in German Expressionist cinema…”

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