Bristol OLD VIC

★★★★☆ 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...

★★★★★ 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...