Bristol OLD VIC

★★★★★ This was a special night at the Old Vic – utterly vindicating BOV Artistic Director Tom Morris’s decision to bring this Blood of the Young production to Bristol. “There is nothing as thrilling asâ...

★★★☆☆ Told by Nell and Oscar the action rolls over a 400 year period, with each character popping up on the same Dorset beach.  Annabel Baldwin as Oscar is a recent graduate, bounding around in a puppy like s...

★★★★★ Unicorns, Almost tells the story of Keith Douglas, an almost unknown poet who fought on the Western desert as a tank commander and was killed three days after the D-Day landings aged just 24 . . . packs...

★★★☆☆ Emma Rice has taken the fundamental components from Blyton’s Malory Towers stories, blended them with some great music and created this new adaptation as a summer treat for the audiences at Brunel’s...

★★★★☆ Summer Rolls, like the dish, reveals more than is suggested at first bite. It is in fact a fascinating insight into a family’s struggles with identity. Although the themes covered are ambitious, it is ...

★★★★★ Against a lovingly-detailed set that evoked the Paris Metro, with its deco panelling and art nouveau lettering, and warmed by Elliot Griggs’ deliciously sympathetic lighting, we were instantly thrown i...

★★★☆☆ This play, original written and performed in 2013, tells the story of four iconic, black, American men who meet in a hotel room one night in 1964. There to celebrate the victory of the young Mohammed Ali...

Each separate production is an impressive stand-alone achievement; taken together, they surely represent a new high-water mark for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. . . a bravely ambitious enterprise, and an extraord...

★★★★★ Puccini wouldn’t have envisaged his Marcello with a laptop, or that a cast for his opera could be as comfortable performing in the foyer of a theatre as on its main stage. But Opera Up Close are the ma...

★★★★☆  Six figures pull and push, writhe and wrestle, arching over each other’s backs until, one by one, five of them fall to the floor as if dead.  The sixth does not fall, and he is the only white perfo...

HOW MY LIGHT IS SPENT on 21st May ★★★☆☆ This is a poetic, optimistic and magical story, set in circumstances that are all too grimly real. It tells the story of a man in his thirties, Jimmy, who has lost h...

★★★★☆ Through a series of realistically authentic vignettes we see how the effect that sexual pressures have on the young and vulnerable.  Updated contemporary references help underline how confusing the subj...