Author: Mike Whitton

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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MINOTAUR at the Bristol Old Vic Studio

“…The performances are excellent, pitched at just the right level to engage first-time theatre-goers. I greatly enjoyed Roddy Peters’ energetic portrayal of King Minos, full of rage, spite and vengefulness. Malcolm Hamilton is a convincingly compromised, wavering King Aegeus; and Jack Holden in contrast is suitably noble and brave as his young son Theseus…”

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