Bristol OLD VIC

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 ...

". . . Institute is no walk in the park. The enhanced sound of the dancers’ breath and breathing told us a lot of what we needed to know about their state of mind, and sometimes the physical effort of their work. There...

" . . Her personal style is engaging and fluid and not without a sense of humour. . . . It’s a brave thing to do to think you can entertain a bunch of people in this way, but Hannah Sullivan does it in some style. He...

". . . Charlotte Melia, as the storyteller, turns in a commanding performance. Her style is the very lack of style in that she could be any intelligent, opinionated woman suffering anguish at what some may describe as lo...

". . . Jonathan Goddard’s interpretation of the title role is entirely free of cliché. No swirling cape, no Christopher Lee, no Hammer horror. Instead, in a performance that skillfully conveys both muscularity and vul...

"...Niamh Cusack literally and metaphorically rolls her sleeves up as the embodiment of long-suffering Irish womanhood in a role which comfortably extends her range well beyond that with which her TV audience will be fam...

Summer has its feet firmly under the table and the second Bristol Prom kicked off last night at the Old Vic. Yesterday they served up more culture than you could wave a baton at. It was Bach day in the main, but set runn...

"...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...