Bristol OLD VIC

I’d be less than surprised if displayed somewhere in Sally Cookson’s study was the rubric, ‘Anything film can do I can do better with just imagination and people’. Ms. Cookson, with her accustomed imagination an...

TENDER NAPALM ★★★★☆ This is the final play in this year’s season. The four productions have been impressive showcases for the very talented graduating directors from the BOVTS, and no less impressive has be...

★★★★☆ Tennessee Williams’ play concerns those subterranean currents of sex and class, which however Americans might protest to the contrary, runs through American society as much as British. Where D.H.Lawren...

★★★★★ Performed in the dark and dank basement tunnels of the Loco Klub that lurk beneath Brunel’s original Temple Meads station, the audience is led through an immersive experience by an extraordinarily talen...

★★★★☆ This is an exploration not just through the hills and dales of a beguiling and sometimes perilous landscape, but through their own equally challenging identity and to get to the heart of what it means to...

★★★★★ In a play that fastidiously avoids any hierarchical bias of interest as far as ‘star’ parts are concerned, Kirsty Bushell, has nevertheless produced a lambent Ranyevskaya. Animated in her indolence an...

★★★★☆ The staging is skilful: the actors use all the generous performance area at Circomedia, props and effects are efficiently utilised, and the lighting and sound is judicious and effective. ...

★★★★☆ In an Adelaide suburb, a working class couple, Bob and Fran Price, has worked selflessly to give their four kids everything they didn’t have themselves. But the family idyll they like to project is abou...

★★★★☆ Imperialism and racism poisons those human capacities that can bring us together, but sadly they are not the only poisons that tear humanity apart. Whatever may have happened in the intervening century...

★★★★★ Physical theatre performed this well is rarely seen and when combined with breath-taking originality, theatrical verve and laugh aloud wit, the production delivers a stunning assault on the senses. Gecko...

★★★★☆ Director Lisa Gregan and the creative team have emphasised the simple setting of this play. The staging is a few desks, chairs and bookshelves; the lighting is simple and restrained allowing each actor’...

★★★★☆ Director Emma Rice, the outgoing artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe has co-adapted the piece with writer Joel Harwood and it arrives in Bristol in a fresh production following appearance in the Gl...