Review: GIFFORD’S CIRCUS: LAGUNA BAY at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock
Gifford’s is unashamedly escapist, and a delight for all ages. Catch it if you can ★★★★★
Recent Reviews
Review: THE BEAUTIFUL FUTURE IS COMING at Bristol Old Vic
Touches on what many millennials and Gen Z’s are feeling right now – that they don’t even know if a future is possible ★★★☆☆
Review: THE MIDNIGHT BELL at Bath Theatre Royal
It is the darkness of author Patrick Hamilton’s inner life that suffuses this re-telling by Matthew Bourne. ★★★★☆
Review: KIM’S CONVENIENCE at Oxford Playhouse Theatre
This is a moving, heartfelt story, an intimate piece of theatre with quick fire dialogue and intense personal conflict ★★★☆☆
Review: JUST BETWEEN OURSELVES at Bath Theatre Royal
Unfortunately there is too limp a trajectory towards its genuinely sad conclusion. ★★☆☆☆
Featured
INTERVIEW WITH: Artistic Director EMMA RICE
Emma Rice, the Artistic Director of Wise Children, talks about a new production of Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest she has adapted and directed for the stage, ahead of its visit to the Theatre Royal Bath at the end of May.
INTERVIEW WITH: Choreographer MATTHEW BOURNE as ‘THE MIDNIGHT BELL’ RETURNS ON TOUR
World famous choreographer Matthew Bourne’s award-winning The Midnight Bell returns bringing intoxicated tales from darkest Soho to the Theatre Royal Bath, 20-24 May.
Book Reviews
NEW PUBLICATION: ‘STAGING THE WORD’ BY ANDREW HILTON
An account of ‘Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory’, the Bristol theatre company founded in 1999 by Andrew Hilton, which over twenty years won an international reputation.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Shakespeare’s borrowed feathers’ by Darren Freebury-Jones
Shakespeare's plays have influenced generations of writers, but who were the early modern playwrights who influenced him?
Other Theatre News
Bristol Old Vic Theatre announces the new writers to join the Five Year Commitment Scheme
Three new young writers join Bristol Old Vic New Writing Mission
