Bristol OLD VIC

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...

★★★☆☆ 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...