Bristol THE WARDROBE

Sharp Teeth Theatre has chosen this simple yet slightly sinister tale to make its debut production. Their previous association with this venue has been the curating and presenting multi-genre work and the company’s fam...

What’s ingenious about the way Croon do their stuff is that most of the scenery appears from two reconstructed pianos. The pianos, or bits of them, become a sandy dessert, a western frontier town or a graveyard, and fr...

. . . this show is really about connections and contrasts: the worlds of the ancient and modern; the people of the west and the near east; the playful occasions and the serious events. Small stories of families and bigg...

The charming Wardrobe Theatre is the perfect place to perform this kind of show. The compact space means the actors are able to connect with the audience, both figuratively and practically, and it allows them to display ...

An excellent performance by Gabrielle Shepherd as Elizabeth the main protagonist “who is very bad at packing” is the core of this interesting play. Her relationship with her partner is very quickly established with a...

Cockroaches have been around for millennia and experts tell us that in any post-apocalyptic environment they are the species most likely to survive and thrive. In William Proudler’s dystopian future world, which has b...

There is a 60’s style house somewhere in Bristol that has somehow contrived to become a creative touchstone to all that live within its walls. With its large living room acting as a performance space, the inhabitants h...

Eclectic, crazy, moody, intense, personal, funny, faltering and finally formidable… the music cooperative Bloom was all this in yet another mini triumph for The Wardrobe Theatre, who seem hardwired to find and reveal r...

One recalls the founding principles of the BBC as, ‘to educate and entertain’. The Last Baguette Company has taken up the challenge on behalf of theatre, in a show which in its brave attempt to explain the near inex...

There is much in Spill that is excruciatingly funny and, to these old ears, downright peculiar – I shall never look at a shower curtain in quite the same way again. But in general we are not invited to mock, but rather...

Desperate Men have been devising highly original and often startling street theatre for 35 years . . . Dada prepared the ground for a wide range of ‘anti-establishment’ comedy; think of The Goons or Monty Python. Fre...

Physical comedy in theatre dates back to the 16th century and not much has changed since then. The main point is to get laughs from slapstick, clowning and mime. We might think of Charlie Chaplin, Benny Hill or Laurel & ...