Bristol THE WARDROBE

TENDER NAPALM ★★★★☆ This is the final play in this year’s season. The four productions have been impressive showcases for the very talented graduating directors from the BOVTS, and no less impressive has be...

★★★★☆ Becca and Louise thrash their way through this performance with energy and verve. They have brought their personal stories, attitudes and opinions to the stage and mixed them with music, movement, images...

★★★☆☆ James Morgan wants to tell us a story, his story from dragons to drag artist. He collected dragons as a child, model dragons of all types. He tells us about mythical dragons, wyverns and St George. We se...

★★★☆☆ Lego Beach is a dramatic and inventive play with a slightly tacked-on moral subtext. The cast work hard at the characters but the best moments are provided by the mime and physical theatre . . . It’s ...

★★★★☆ Then Again sits perfectly in the intimate space of the excellent Wardrobe theatre and Tremolo transmit clearly their message about the dangers and dilemmas of social media. The actors produce sparkling p...

★★★★☆ “Help… I need somebody” Viki Browne ends her performance to a rather bubbly Beatles soundtrack, bathed in the affection of her audience. Back at the beginning of the show she proclaims: “It start...

★★★★☆ Sexy is a multi-media show with some well-chosen film clips, screen goddesses in the main, but with some uncomfortable glances back to not so distant past attitudes. Lobbing a small hand grenade about sex...

★★★★☆ Harrisson greets the audience as they enter and straightaway we get the impression that this is a personal story. He seems an affable, friendly chap. The sort of guy you might want to have a drink with; ...

★★★☆☆ It’s the time of the year for Christmas shows and this includes the Wardrobe Theatre’s alternative offering. This time the unlikely mash up is between Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 film Reservoir Dogs ...

★★★★☆ Cristina MacKerron and Chess Dillon-Reams are the Hiccup project: a Brighton-based comedy dance/theatre duo. With this show their aim is to attack and expose the ‘keep calm and carry on’ culture of m...

★★★★☆ The show is a richly textured torrent of memorable characters, songs and verbal and physical jokes; galloping whimsy at its best. Anything funnier would likely need to include whoopee cushions at the Pala...

★★★★★ This show was the first of Living Spit’s ‘historical comedy-theatre shows’ and was originally conceived, written and performed in 2012; apparently because Howard ‘looks a bit like Henry VIII’....