Bristol OLD VIC

★★★★☆ 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...

★★★★☆ You will be hard pressed to find a better show this Christmas. Now we are all friends of Dorothy . . . . ...

★★★★☆ I doubt it could be ever said of Kneehigh that they have bitten off more than they can chew. Such is the method to the madness that nothing is beyond their wit. At first blush then, The Tin Drum would app...

★★★☆☆ The Bristol based Wardrobe Ensemble continue their trademark foray into the mildly political and highly entertaining series of plays in this show which returns from a triumphant run in the Edinburgh Frin...

★★★★★ In this intelligent, funny and electrifying play Duncan Macmillan takes us into the unfamiliar and neglected world of rehab. Going down with cold turkey and then being built back up again might not seem a...

★★★★☆ This is, by any measure, an intelligent, satisfying and enjoyable reworking of Pinter. Pinter without the ‘esque’ perhaps, yet in Mr Naiambana one in which the portrayal of an iconic character will s...

★★★★★ Occasionally, when all the elements that go into making theatre come together successfully, there can be alchemy, an enchantment that lifts a production to a level where it not only delivers delightful ...