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Bristol Old Vic Trust
Theatre Royal
King Street
Bristol BS1 4ED
Reception: 0117 949 3993
Box Office: 0117 987 7877
tickets@bristololdvic.org.uk
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Review: BOVTS’s FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

★★★★☆ 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...
Review: HEDDA by BOVTS online from Bristol Old Vic

★★★★☆ 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...
Review: SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII SOCIALLY DISTANCED at 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...
Review: BOVTS presents PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE online

★★★★☆ 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 ...
Review: TO PROVIDE ALL PEOPLE by BOVTS online

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...
Review: 62 SPERM WHALES by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School online

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...
Review: BRISTOL OLD VIC THEATRE SCHOOL GOES LIVE-STREAM

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...
Review: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Online – BUZZING

★★★★☆ 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...
Review: FAUSTUS: THAT DAMNED WOMAN at Bristol Old Vic

★★★☆☆ 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...
Review: THE LARAMIE PROJECT in the Weston Studio, 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...
Review: MIDLIFE at Bristol Old Vic

★★★★☆ 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...
Review: ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS at Bristol Old Vic

★★★★☆ 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...