Bristol THE WARDROBE

★★★★☆ 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...

★★★★☆ In this highly entertaining, personally revealing and slightly political piece the two actual flatmates – or friends as Louise prefers to call themselves– explore the lives of people who used to live...

★★★☆☆ Two gentlemen in dressing-gowns and nightcaps peer out nervously from behind a curtain. They appear reassured that they have an audience, so they emerge, resplendent now in rather garish outfits . . . T...

★★★★★ I really enjoyed We Are Ian, which is surprising, for I do not dance; never have, really. I suspected that I was the last person who should have been asked to review a show about the Acid House music of ...

★★★☆☆ It tells the story of Tristan, who lives with his young daughter Kelsey on a boat moored on the Helford River. Tristan makes a somewhat precarious living by stealing from all the local second homes that...

★★★☆☆ There have been Reality television shows as far back as the 40s and 50s but they really become a big phenomenon on our screens in the 90s with the rapid development of the ‘Big Brother’ style of pro...

Rocky, A Horror Show is the latest contribution to the Wardrobe Theatre’s Yuletide tradition of turning two very different kinds of entertainment into unlikely bedfellows. Last year they combined a sweet fairy tale wi...