12th May 2016 For his show The Ted Bundy Project at Mayfest 2015, performer Greg Wohead interrogated the public’s demand for graphic content, whether it be extreme pornography, violence or the explicit confession tapes of the show’s protagonist. Wohead trod a… Continue Reading
23rd April 2016 Dark Land Light House the latest offering from Bristol’s Sleepdogs theatre company, a collaboration between director Tanuja Amarasuriya and writer Timothy X Atack. A near-dystopian science fiction story, it is based in a universe similar to ours.… Continue Reading
31st March 2016 In Greek mythology, Iphigenia was the princess of Argos, sacrificed under the knife of King Agamemnon in order that the Gods should allow his ships to sail to Troy. Fast-forward a couple of millennia and Iphigenia’s… Continue Reading
29th March 2016 In 1941, the great American playwright and Nobel Laureate Eugene O’Neill completed Long Day’s Journey into Night. A piece of autobiographical work, it was so fierce and laid bare so many truths of his life that… Continue Reading
29th Feburary 2016 This months Must See Monday looks ahead to Jeremy Irons’ return to Bristol, Bristol’s new Film Festival and a man punching gravity in the face: Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 WEEK 1 TIP OF… Continue Reading
13th February 2016 With CounterActs, Candoco Dance Company brought together the work of two British artists to produce a double bill of shows at Bristol Old Vic, Beheld and Let’s Talk About Dis. While the two could not be more dissimilar in terms of… Continue Reading
3rd February 2016 Proving a solid first production for theatre company Cuckoo Collective, ‘The Dog and the Elephant’ delves into the violent underworld of Victorian bare knuckle boxing and the struggles of fearsome fighter Bendigo Barlow. Focussing on the complex… Continue Reading
22nd January 2016 The return of Jane Eyre to Bristol Old Vic for a seventeen night run comes as something of a double celebration. Firstly, it comes as part of the theatre’s 250th Anniversary celebrations which mark the Old Vic as… Continue Reading