Bristol OLD VIC

" . . . Exactly as theatre should be, Constellations is vivid, honest and electrifying. It excites the imagination and enflames debate. It strips away and remoulds the narrative structure in order to create a spectacle t...

"The play, which in Rachel Wagstaff’s adaption necessarily contracts much of Faulks’s novel, concerns in no small part the lives of the sappers and in particular one Jack Firebrace . . . the brave and steadfast miner...

" . . . When I first saw this show a couple of years ago, in a tent behind Bristol’s Temple Meads station my impression was of unfulfilled potential. The skills of the members of Invisible Circus seemed to open up poss...

" . . . Risking excommunication, and taking audience participation into hitherto unexplored territory, Amy Mason has created a totally non-churchy ceremony for our times, modelled closely in structure on the Catholic Mas...

"Any play about alcoholics is setting itself a challenge. Drunks in themselves are not particularly interesting. ‘Booze talking’ is usually dull. The interest lies in how they got there or how they got out of there o...

". . . A heady mix of intrigue, passion and sexual politics, Heresy of Love is an ambitious play, and this Bristol Old Vic Theatre School production, ably directed by Jenny Stephens, certainly does it justice. . . . Thi...

" . . . To a great sound track by local musician Kid Carpet, Cori found ‘clues’ amongst the audience and with the children’s participation started to find links to the missing mini-girl . . . The show is fun and qu...

"It has often been said of Harold Pinter that the silences are as important as the dialogue (as someone who has dried on a West End stage let me tell you silence is not all it is cracked up to be) so in Light the darknes...

"The book is one of those more sniggered about than read. Not so much a manual of sex as the 70’s bearded recipe book, The Joy of Sex, but the reminiscences, laid out in letter form, of a young, parentless country girl...

The house was full and that certain kind of lively buzz form a primarily youth audience was matched and controlled by an even flow of energy and commitment in the company’s performance. The pace was snappy and well cho...

". . . Helen Edmunson’s script sucks the marrow from the book whilst Tom Morris’s direction (revived in this production by Pieter Lawman), spreads it across the stage in a dazzling display of theatrical ingenuity. It...

It is a formidable task to create a play suitable for a family audience that nevertheless conveys something of the realities of life and death in the trenches of the First World War. Director Toby Hulse has responded to ...