2nd March 2015 British comedy owes much to the world of University revues. Many of the legendary names that truly define British wit, irreverence and satire, first made their names whilst treading the boards at one or another of our finest academic institutions – Peter Cook, John Cleese, Stephen… Continue Reading
24th February 2015 The bard’s oft sickly sweet love story, of two teenage lovers forced into the arms of tragedy by their self-absorbed elders, can sometimes sound like the plot to a mid-afternoon B-movie on Channel 5. Yet it remains as revisited… Continue Reading
Theatre Ad Infinitum’s Light brings to Bristol Old Vic a tale of a dystopian Orwellian future, a state where a totalitarian regime monitors the thoughts of its citizens through implants. Entirely current themes then, in the wake of the NSA scandals,… Continue Reading
11 February 2015 While across town the cinematic adaptation of 50 Shades of Grey gets set to send menopausal women’s heart aflutter with tales of soapy sadomasochism, the Bristol Old Vic provides something more akin to a powdery romp. Here… Continue Reading
28 January 2014 Grounded arrives at the Arnolfini with a shining reputation, having won awards and critical acclaim following its run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013. A one-woman show, with Lucy Ellinson taking the stage as a nameless former… Continue Reading
21st January 2015 Bristol Ferment is a department based at Bristol Old Vic which leads a programme of artistic development throughout the local area. Inviting artists with a varying range of creative talent to forge exciting and innovating theatrical possibilities,… Continue Reading
7th January 2015 To describe The Gigantic Beard that was Evil as a mouthful of a title just doesn’t do it justice. Similarly, to characterise this adaptation of Stephen Collins graphic novel of the same name, by Bristol Old Vic Young… Continue Reading
Returning to Bristol for the last two weeks of January is Ferment, the artist development factory at the Old Vic designed to coax the talent out of the city’s thriving cultural populace. Theatre-makers take their seeds of ideas – storylines,… Continue Reading