Bristol THE WARDROBE

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 & ...

If one may make so bold as to remark that Ms Delaneuf lends a certain glamour to the discipline she embellishes by her participation I do no more than convey an evident truth. We were struck, for example, by her willing...

Substance & Shadow Theatre return to the Wardrobe in a play by Midge and Rosie Mullin. Leonard Silver (Nathan Simpson), with a tightly puckered mouth, gormlessly and expectantly open for much of the time, and a whiny mid...

Megan Ford is an American writer and comedy performer based in London. She describes herself as an obnoxious liberal Jewish feminist who will change the world using nothing but her bare hands and some fabulous wigs. In F...

The London Snorkelling Team create music they imagine may have happened sometime in the 1950s, perhaps at a cocktail party for experimental scientists with a fascination for cartoons. Their compositions are inspired by t...

Breach Theatre Company describe themselves as performance makers crossing disciplines and mashing media. Credit should go to the directors and producers of this piece for their use of video, lighting and staging; all of ...

For over a year and a half Sharp Teeth Theatre have been presenting monthly shows on Sunday nights that bring together storytelling, poetry, music and, of course, theatre. The aim is clearly to be as varied, inclusive a...