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The Wardrobe Theatre
25 West Street
Old Market
Bristol, BS2 0DF
Box Office – 0117 902 0344 / tickets@tobaccofactorytheatres.com
A venue in the heart of Bristol offering an eclectic mix of theatre, comedy and regular local nights.
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THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII at the Wardrobe, Bristol
★★★★★ 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’....
THE WAY I LOOK at the Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
★★★☆☆ Performance collective O&O have made a new piece of physical theatre that ‘explores the relationship between identity and appearance’. ...
FOSSILS at the Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
★★★☆☆ Nel Crouch has created a delightful, playful piece with a good mix of serious dramatic pondering about the past and its place in the present, with a good smattering of light comedic moments . . . A charmi...
GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY at the Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
★★★★☆ Boiler suited and ‘up for it’ the team of four cleaners from Sparkle and Shine find themselves obliged to take a leading part in the greatest heist of the twentieth century having innocently gone to...
Sleeping Trees MAFIA? at the Wardrobe, Bristol
★★★★☆ Parody is nothing new in comedy circles. Ever since the Airplane movie in the 80s, and it’s like, film, TV and theatre have sought the comic gold at the end of the pastiche rainbow. Multi-award-winning ...
IT’S BETTER TO LIE THAN TO TELL THE TRUTH AND END UP ALONE IN A DITCH CRYING at the Wardrobe, Bristol
★★★☆☆ Waddell describes her journey from deception to self-discovery with wit and self-deprecatory charm....
Impromptu Shakespeare at the Wardrobe, Bristol
★★★★☆ As part of Bristol’s ongoing Shakespeare Festival, the Impromptu Shakespeare team packed out the Wardrobe last night with an enthused and animated audience that whooped and clapped at the end of each ...
Wake Up & Deirdrealize at the Wardrobe, Bristol
★★☆☆☆ This is the first full length show produced by the team behind the regular Nincompoop nights at the Wardrobe theatre. They describe it as “combination of storytelling and game show with a dark twist”....
MENTAL at the Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
★★★★☆ There is something particularly engaging about a personal revelation: insights into actual minds affect us in a way that differs from fictional narratives, perhaps not more powerfully, but with an added ...
DIRECTORS’ CUTS – Bristol Old Vic Theatre School at the Wardrobe
This has been a stimulating Directors’ Cuts season, and the best has been kept until last. Crave is an extraordinary prose-poem for which writer Sarah Kane supplied no setting, no stage directions and no descriptions o...
CLOSER EACH DAY from the Wardrobe Bristol aboard SS Great Britain
★★★★☆ The ship bobbed on, through a catastrophic encounter with an iceberg (a titanic accident), past alluring sirens, to a finale that exploded with an unexpected triple wedding, mutiny and murder. Jolly jap...
TANK at the Wardrobe, Bristol
★★★☆☆ In the early 60s, on the Caribbean Virgin Islands, a man called John Lilly began doing research on communication between humans and dolphins. His work attracted the attention of Margaret Lovatt, who was l...