Bristol OLD VIC

"...Certainly there were moments of real drama, particularly during the edgy discussion between the young soldiers as to whether or not to leave their posts in the face of impending doom, and when agonising over the fate...

"...In Nicholas Bone’s production for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School twelve actors play the residents of London Road, ordinary people who have had to come to terms with the knowledge that a serial killer has been l...

"...The women in the play are all capable of holding their own in what is otherwise a male dominated world. Prostitute, Jane, provides more than the conventional ‘tart with a heart’ and Elexi Walker gives her charact...

The Lillies make this tableau of grotesques sizzle with two sets of blisteringly well-constructed story/songs based on Wedekind’s original words. The music has a sultry tangoesque feel to it, and we are constantly take...

Presented by the four graduating directors and features work by current acting and production students. The season concludes with DUTCHMAN by LeRoi Jones, a tale of seduction aboard the New York subway. There are two cha...

An irrepressible Holly Augustine turns in a jack-in-the-box performance as Chloe Jackson, a disaffected 21-year-old from Leytonstone who finds encouragement from her dad, who is training her to box. From the off Chloe is...

"...is a highly original show that explores the seven performers’ own experiences as a series of dark, interweaving fairy tales told through the medium of contemporary circus. Visually it has a restrained, cool beauty,...

"...The performances are excellent, pitched at just the right level to engage first-time theatre-goers. I greatly enjoyed Roddy Peters’ energetic portrayal of King Minos, full of rage, spite and vengefulness. Malcolm H...

"We are very lucky in Bristol to have a theatre willing to take on such a project and give the company the resources sufficient to realize it. However it doesn’t merely deserve our support, it earns it through producti...

A prince who needs to marry pronto or the kingdom will crumble and a mermaid who saves from drowning and falls in love with said prince and naively sacrifices her voice and fins in order to meet and marry him – it ...

Aesop’s Fables have been around for ever, almost literally. As though to establish that nothing ever changes, the lessons they teach us are always relevant, especially today. The glory of the stories is they probably ...

The mark of great drama is often its ability to use humour. The juxtaposing of comedy and tragedy is a great tool which, when used skilfully can produce great theatre. As we all know, all good comedy contains elements of...