Bristol THE WARDROBE

★★★☆☆ 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...

★★★★☆ 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...

★★★★☆ 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 ...

★★★☆☆ Waddell describes her journey from deception to self-discovery with wit and self-deprecatory charm....

★★★★☆ 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 ...

★★☆☆☆ 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”....

★★★★☆ 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 ...

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...

★★★★☆ 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...

★★★☆☆ 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...

★★★★☆ Ivan Hansen who co-wrote and performs the piece also personally greets people individually at the door and with a beguiling, child-like but assured hand, leads the audience along a series of warm, tende...

★★★★☆ Friday night, 8pm, and the third Bristol Improv Marathon begins. A collection of over 30 performers (assisted by theatre technicians, musicians and theatre staff) create an entirely improvised, unscripte...