Bristol OLD VIC

★★★☆☆ This production, by the Bristol Old Vic Theatre school, highlights a certain problem faced by the school or producer when choosing a production which allows students to get a fair crack of the whip in sh...

★★★★☆ Bidding farewell to youth, becoming the next older generation, being solely responsible for one’s life, can all be fearful freefall-type moments. Diverse City pull no punches here, but in this brutall...

★★★★☆ Romantics Anonymous is highly entertaining, though the plot has pretty much run is course by the interval, and the second half consists of a repetition of the same will-they-or-won’t-they theme.  Itâ...

★★★★☆ The BOV Young Company is made up of young people aged 5-25 from across Bristol and together with the creative team deserves enormous praise for producing the first highlight of 2020.  They demonstrate th...

★★★★☆ The show is a triumphant example of regional theatre connecting with its audience, recognising that they want to hear local references and see themselves reflected in the story telling . . . A Christmas...

★★★☆☆ Burgerz is an intense show with challenging elements around lifelong struggles and insecurities. There are themes of race, gender, sexuality and class that are both provocative and inspiring. A forthrigh...

★★★★☆ Mike Bartlett’s gripping and ambitious tale of dysfunction and personal peril uses the imminent threat of an earthquake to symbolise impending climate catastrophe and the seismic emotional tipping po...

★★★☆☆ Last night there was a great buzz of excitement in the Harbourside Kitchen as we waited to board.  Some punters had turned up in nautical costume; others were decked out in traditional Hallowe’en gear...

★★★★★ Whether whispering instructions to the inept and rival lover Christian beneath Roxane’s window, leaping barricades during the war with Spain or duelling with those will the nerve to refer to his probos...

 ★★★☆☆ The scene is a basement, where two women have come to hide from knife-wielding men who prowl above.  Kelly is a tearful, panicky teenager with an injured foot. It transpires that this is the basement ...

★★★★☆ Building on testimonies from real deaf people, Ad Infinitum company explore the  otherwise untapped world of Deaf Culture, revealed in turn as Alan, Graham and Helen are told that they are broken and m...

★★★★☆ In the book Matt explains some of the physical symptoms of mental illness and has said that he believes treatment would improve if people recognised the connection between the two. And this is where a pla...