Bristol OLD VIC

"...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...

"The performances by the young actors were excellent and consistent, bearing in mind the hundreds of characters they were asked to portray...It would have been an ambitious undertaking for the National or the RSC to moun...