Bristol OLD VIC

★★★★★ Emma Rice has brought us an evening of dark joy in which love is the force that both binds together and pulls apart. Where perfection is always out of reach; as Catherine says, “I once dreamt I was in H...

★★★★☆ Directed by Sally Cookson and devised together by the company, The Three Seagulls is an imaginative, energetic production that has moments both of high drama and of brooding melancholy, but the dominant ...

It tells the story of three young Bristol boys, friends since primary school, who enlist in the army to escape the banality and tick-tock drudgery of civilian life. Arthur has been driving cars off the container ships at...

★★★★☆ For a while it looked as though this show would have a real ‘live’ audience at the Redgrave, but sadly it was not to be. That is a great shame, for this production of Far From The Madding Crowd is g...

★★★★☆ Throughout the current crisis, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School has demonstrated an admirable determination to fulfil the old dictum that the show must go on. Their latest brave riposte to the closure o...

In this, my first experience of live theatre since March I could not help thinking of the film Back to the Future.  Is this really the way that theatre is going to be staged in the future? Will we be forever either look...

★★★★☆ Once again, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School has demonstrated great resourcefulness when responding to the challenges presented by the current pandemic.  Directed by Aaron Parsons and recorded live in ...

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 B...

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 s...

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 st...

★★★★☆ 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...

★★★☆☆ The original Faust myth, based on the historical person of Johann Faust, concerns a man who prefers earthly to religious knowledge and enters into a pact with the devil for unlimited knowledge and a fai...