Bristol OLD VIC

★★★★☆ We are often rather glibly defined as ‘the talking animal’, so what are you if you can’t speak?...

Bristol Old Vic is now offering 2-for-1 tickets to selected shows as part of nationwide Love Your Local Theatre campaign!...

100 free tickets per show for anyone new to theatre...

After 12 years at the helm of the prestigious theatre, overseeing the renewal of its mission, programme and building, Tom Morris has announced that he will leave in the autumn of 2022 and that this future-focused season ...

★★★★★ This is full throttle theatre, played with skill and precision and guaranteed to hit the back of the net....

★★★★☆ The result, as here, is the portrayal of an inner intensity rare enough on the screen and gifted to a mere handful of stage artists in each generation. ...

★★★★★ 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...