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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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HELP! at the Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
★★★★☆ “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 at the Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
★★★★☆ 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...
THE NORTH! THE NORTH! at the Wardrobe, Bristol
★★★★☆ 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; ...
RESERVOIR MOGS at the Wardrobe in Bristol
★★★☆☆ 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 ...
IT’S OK, I’M DEALING WITH IT at the Wardrobe, Bristol
★★★★☆ 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...
HOW TO WIN AGAINST HISTORY at The Wardrobe, Bristol
★★★★☆ 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...
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....