Tag: Wardrobe Theatre

The London Snorkelling Team at the Wardrobe, Bristol

The London Snorkelling Team create music they imagine may have happened sometime in the 1950s, perhaps at a cocktail party for experimental scientists with a fascination for cartoons. Their compositions are inspired by the characterful jazz of Raymond Scott, lounge exotica, and the library music used for TV, film and cartoon soundtracks.

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THE BEANFIELD at Bristol’s Wardrobe Theatre

Breach Theatre Company describe themselves as performance makers crossing disciplines and mashing media. Credit should go to the directors and producers of this piece for their use of video, lighting and staging; all of which are deftly blended to produce an ambitious and unnerving analysis of the events of 30 years ago, which still have a bearing on our lives today.

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Sharp Teeth THE MARCH EDITION at the Wardrobe, Bristol

For over a year and a half Sharp Teeth Theatre have been presenting monthly shows on Sunday nights that bring together storytelling, poetry, music and, of course, theatre. The aim is clearly to be as varied, inclusive and accessible as possible, a strategy exemplified by their ‘pay what you decide’ policy. The presentational style is determinedly informal and relaxed; this is the antithesis of elitist theatre.

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1972 – THE FUTURE OF SEX at the Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol

In his poem Annus Mirabilis Philip Larkin said that sex didn’t start until 1963. The individuals in this play continue to struggle with it in 1972 and the flash-forward scenes show that even today we still haven’t worked out what it’s really all about. With the actors sweating and out of breathe we reach the climax. For some there is an awakening, for others relief. One character feels let down and frustrated but I think you will be heartily fulfilled by this delightful show.

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BIRTH & DEATH & HERE & NOW at the Wardrobe, Bristol

There is birth and there is death and then there is the bit in between. In this new solo show from the Open Attic Theatre Company actor Adam Blake takes a humorous look at the inevitabilities in life. In one scene, helped by audience participation, Adam acts out a game show with the grim reaper as host. When and how would you like to die? . . .

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