Bristol OLD VIC

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...

Mr Timothy X Attack takes us to an imagined future (what other sort is there indeed?) Humankind seems to have made it’s way to the far flung corners of the galaxy, which intrepid adventures have necessitated the provis...

This year, thanks to the support of the Spielman Trust, the BOVTS was able to present its Graduating Showcase in a proper theatre setting, and Principal Paul Rummer was delighted to see that St George’s was packed out ...

O’Neill’s chunk of raw biography is human tragedy in which the domestic is elevated to a peak of grandeur. The playwright has publicly disembowelled himself and presented the heaving, diseased and suppurating offal ...

All That Fall originated as a radio play, but why adapt it for the theatre if not to let us see it? It might be thought that we are being short-changed, but in fact much is gained in the darkness. One reason is that thi...

This, thankfully, is a version which remains largely true to the spirit of the original while clearly having a direct relevance to our own troubled times. Writer Brendan Kennelly’s language is vigorously contemporary, ...