Thursday, December 6, 2018
The Bristol Old Vic lowers the curtain on a memorable Year of Change season with this bold and resourceful re-working of Charles
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Ustinov Studio artistic director Laurence Boswell, already renowned for importing challenging works from elsewhere in the world, has opened a season of
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Even the most devoted Sherlock Holmes fans will find much to enjoy in this three-handed comic spoof on The Hound of the
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Bristol was an early pioneer of post-war housing estates, so the city’s Tobacco Factory Theatres provide an excellent choice for this 25th
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Jonathan Church closes this year`s rich Theatre Royal Bath summer season with an articulate and finely acted revival of Terence Rattigan`s rarely-performed
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Among the many joys of the Oscar winning film Shakespeare in Love is the tongue-in-cheek thespian banter from writers Marc Norman and
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Hot on the heels of a tremendous production of Arthur Miller`s family drama The Price, Theatre Royal Bath stages a revival of
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Jonathan Church, artistic director of Theatre Royal Bath’s summer season, has settled on the 50th anniversary of Arthur Miller’s intricately plotted family
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In her pomp, Patricia Highsmith was one of America’s most successful thriller writers of the 20th century, author of the Tom Ripley
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South Western, the latest anarchic offering from Bristol-based collective the Wardrobe Ensemble, is labelled a spaghetti western, but feels more like a
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Alfresco touring company Miracle Theatre has abandoned the high speed entrances and exits on bicycles from last year`s production of Flann O`Brien`s
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Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, never afraid of treading new paths, has taken temporary leave of its Bristol home to launch the
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After two summers of invigorating open-air Shakespeare in the gardens of Berkeley Castle, Split Second Productions has moved into the majestic 12th
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Broadway actor Shuler Hensley wears a huge padded suit to play the lead in Samuel D Hunter`s intellectually challenging play The Whale.
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The ground-breaking new company of players at Bristol`s Tobacco Factory has set a formidable quality mark in its inaugural season, with this
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This long-lost play by eminent Edwardian playwright Harley Granville Barker did not win any favours from its author. Agnes Colander, an early
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Iwan Lewis, artistic director of the new 200-seat Barn Theatre in Cirencester, has set out his stall by opening the space with
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Playwright Rory Mullarkey`s forthright, faithful and funny new translation of Anton Chekhov`s final masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard, is tailor-made for the launch
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Macbeth, with its use of violence as a political tool, is among the more receptive of Shakespeare`s plays to a modern overlay.
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Iconic thriller writers Agatha Christie and John Buchan can scarcely have imagined that, many decades later, they would become the regular butt
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Mark Goucher, who is bedding in as the new Chief Executive at Cheltenham Everyman, has launched his strategy to make the theatre
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The family of Tom Berkeley, co-founder of Guildford-based Split Second Productions, have lived in the fortress-like Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire since the
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Peter Pan, seen by JM Barrie as his theatrical homage to childhood, is always at its best allying dazzling flying scenes with
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Professional circus clown Tweedy is in his pomp in his home town pantomime at Cheltenham's Everyman Theatre. It's well worth arriving 15
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Most of the plays in Tom Stoppard`s kaleidoscopic portfolio appeal to the intellect. But The Real Thing, an examination of the nature
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It is one of the best-known put-downs in the whole of Noel Coward. "Very flat Norfolk," a peevish Amanda tells her dangerously
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Henry Goodman previously portrayed that doyen of repressed fears, Sigmund Freud, in Terry Johnson's surreal comedy Hysteria. So it doesn't take a
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A favourite of James Joyce and Graham Greene, the work of enigmatic Irish satirist Flann O`Brien is a bold choice for an
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Few Shakespeare plays are better suited to the time machine treatment than Much Ado About Nothing. After all, soldiers returning from battle
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This politically-charged, modern-dress version of Julius Caesar marks a second collaboration between the Bristol Old Vic and students from the independent BOV
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When Moliere`s 17th century satirical masterpiece, Tartuffe, was premiered at the Palace of Versailles, critics were appalled by his depiction of religious
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