TO PROVIDE ALL PEOPLE. 25th June

★★★★☆ 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.  Back then it had important things to say about our much-cherished, much-abused health service, but the Covid-19 crisis has surely intensified its relevance.

62 SPERM WHALES

★★★★☆ Seven actors in seven different locations scattered across the country, perform a play that places all seven characters on the same beach of a small coastal town at the same time.  It shouldn’t work, but thanks to the technical skills of what in normal circumstances would be called the backstage team, somehow it all comes together. 

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 . . .

★★★★☆ 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.