Bristol OLD VIC

★★★★★ The very wonderful Linda Bassett, Deborah Findlay, Kika Markham and June Watson play Mrs Jarrett, Sally, Lena and Vi. Directed by James Macdonald this quartet come to life as an ensemble, hilariously so ...

★★★★☆ The set is fantastically inventive; there is wood, plenty of it, along with tyres, ropes and tubes; just like at the Vench. And the little touches with scene-markers, torches and traffitape are delightf...

★★★☆☆ The Record, one of nine pieces 600 Highwaymen have created since 2009, veers towards being a kinetic art installation, brought to life by 40-plus Bristolians of all ages, sizes and backgrounds. Theatre ...

The Old Vic rounds off its 250th year with a magical retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s tale, which director Lee Lyford describes as an epic emotional journey as well as a physical one. Gerda’s quest to save her ...

The very name Kneehigh is enough to inspire goose bumps of anticipation whenever a new production of theirs hits town. 946 is no exception. Directed by Emma Rice, this adaption of the Morpurgo tale sparkled from beginnin...

A young man with a hideously disfigured face has become a member of a travelling show. One day he removes his bandages and discovers that the sight of his injuries has a strangely transformative effect upon his audience...

A play which owes as much to Menander’s Dyskolos (via Roman copies) as well as the author’s own eventful twenty three years and (unsurprisingly in a first play) a bagful of other influences, whilst mixing comedy of m...

With a multitude of scenes to get through, not once did this ensemble falter with their entrances, exits or with their words. But that would be to patronise them. Never mind getting the basics right, this went way beyond...

The Bristol Old Vic is to be congratulated on its approach to this production in which great ‘old hands’ play alongside hitherto unknown students from the Old Vic Theatre School. The experiment not only worked, it tu...

Kneehigh’s The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk is a portrait of Marc Chagall’s and Bella Rosenfeld’s marriage. It is a portrait as colourful, as quirky and as inventive as Chagall’s own paintings, and it has enormous ch...

The opening of Bristol’s Theatre Royal, the Old Vic, in May 1766 could not be described as an event that would be upstaged by anything or anyone. It was one of history’s particularly quiet months and consequently, th...

In a bar near The Old Vic a THEATRE BUFF is chatting to his friend, an ageing and slightly conservative DRAMATURG for a touring theatre company. D: Madame Bovary, a play you say? TB: That’s right. D: Not possi...