Bristol THE WARDROBE

★★★★☆ ‘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 ...

★★★★☆ Complete with stove pipe hat and dry ice Rose becomes the ‘Witchfinder General Knowledge’, before she herself is outed as a witch, to a Gloria Gaynor soundtrack, ‘hexed’, laying the ground for t...

★★★★☆ Tamsin Hurtado Clarke has set herself a formidable task: to take inspiration from her favourite novel, which is quite an epic and substantial volume, in order to make a short, one woman show. ...

★★★☆☆ 1817, northern England: a group of disgruntled and cynical workers decided to take matters into their own hands and launch a rebellion. Most were skilled artisans who were being forced into poverty by t...

★★★☆☆ How My Light Is Spent is a poetic, optimistic and magical story, set in circumstances that are all too grimly real. It tells the story of a man in his thirties, Jimmy, who has lost his job in Newport and...

★★★★☆ Poison is a thoroughly absorbing two-hander that gradually reveals the inner lives of its protagonists. A man and a woman meet in the reception area of a cemetery. . . ....