Bristol THE WARDROBE

★★★★★ delightfully realised theatre with precision timing and maximum effect at a minimum of expense. A madness masterclass! ...

25 November - 22 January ...

★★★☆☆ Shôn effects a contrived disorderliness and spontaneity that engages easily with the audience as he briskly darts about the stage...

★★★★★ A tour-de-force delivered at a pace beyond the dials – the laughs keep coming as the bodily fluids keep pumping!...

★★★★☆ an emotional roller coaster making me both laugh and reflect in equal measures....

★★★★☆ ‘I’m sick of change’, he declares with some venom and thereby sounds a complaint that has no doubt echoed through time....

★★★★☆ It’s 1860, and we meet a novelist deserted by his muse. He tells us of past triumphs, but now he is in desperate need of inspiration. Can the audience help? They surely can....

★★★★☆ “Come back and see us again tomorrow, we have no idea what’s going to happen then!” say the cast at the end. Words that chime perfectly with the times we are living through...

★★★★☆ piping hot script, laughs and the skilful way the macabre meets the madcap confirms that you can have your cake and eat it...

★★★★☆ Living Spit are back with their gloriously irreverent version of the Christmas story, previously called The Nativity, but tweaked here and there for this post-Christmas revival...

★★★★☆ Created and performed by the tremendous Hattie Eason, Cameron Sharp, and Rebecca Glendenning we explore how three very different offspring interact with their mothers from childhood to the current day. ...

★★★★★ The team at the Wardrobe Theatre are all too aware that we need cheering up so what a tonic it is that they’ve served up another of their genre mash-up, adult comedy winter productions. Drac & Jill is ...