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Bristol Old Vic Trust
Theatre Royal
King Street
Bristol BS1 4ED
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PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS at Bristol Old Vic
★★★★★ 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...
THE CARETAKER at Bristol Old Vic
★★★★☆ 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...
THE FLYING LOVERS OF VITEBSK at Bristol Old Vic
★★★★★ 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 ...
13 by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School at Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol
★★★★★ ‘13’ is as stiff a challenge as you could imagine for this year’s BOVTS graduates. With multiple scene changes and cross-over conversations in a first half alone that stretched to almost an hour an...
JULIUS CAESAR at the Bristol Old Vic
★★★★★ It’s not difficult to find contemporary relevance in this timeless and timely drama. Overt up-dating is unnecessary and unwise - one recent production in Manhattan lost sponsorship because it had a Trum...
UNDER MILK WOOD – Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, West Country Tour
★★★☆☆ The piece is full of idiosyncratic individuals from the fictional seaside town of Llareggub who guide us through their day. The young players of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School have chosen this much-...
DIRECTORS’ CUTS – Bristol Old Vic Theatre School at the Wardrobe
This has been a stimulating Directors’ Cuts season, and the best has been kept until last. Crave is an extraordinary prose-poem for which writer Sarah Kane supplied no setting, no stage directions and no descriptions o...
MEDEA at Bristol Old Vic
★★★☆☆ Writer, Chino Odimba’s BC/AD mash is a very Euripidean project of reimagining characters from traditional myth as contemporaries, with all the psychological nuance that we might now expect. So a modern...
MESSIAH at the Bristol Old Vic
★★★★★ The ‘Messiah’ becomes ‘The Beloved’ and his followers, a crestfallen bunch of activists, rummage around looking for some meaning and direction following his death. The chorus, much loved by Hande...
ESCAPED ALONE at 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 ...
JUNKYARD at the Bristol Old Vic
★★★★☆ 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 at the Bristol Old Vic
★★★☆☆ 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 ...