154 stories by "Jeremy Brien"
Tobacco Factory, Bristol: Aside from the occasional sideways glance at the likes of Chekhov and Middleton, this is the first time that Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory has moved away from …
Rondo Theatre, Bath: Two one-act plays by Arthur Miller that indirectly explore aspects of Miller's marriage to Marilyn Monroe represent a bold double challenge for the debut production…
Ustinov Studio, Bath: Former RSC artistic director Michael Boyd picks up the director's baton for the first time since leaving the company two years ago to launch the Ustinov's thi…
Old Vic, Bristol: Charlotte Bronte might be a mite surprised, I suspect, at this bold and vibrant two-part adaptation of her great Gothic novel. But it is likely she would lend unqualified a…
Tobacco Factory, Bristol: Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory has launched a £15,000 appeal for its 15th anniversary celebrations, highlighted by an extended end-of-season national …
Playhouse Theatre, Weston-super-Mare: Once it was pop stars who were parachuted into pantomime land in a bid to add box office appeal, often on the strength of a single hit record. Now the m…
The Brewery, Tobacco Factory, Bristol: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Or is it our caped crusader Super Sam, zooming in with his cohort Mega Max to rescue Christmas for the boys and girls of B…
The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath: The Moomin children's stories of Tove Jansson, with their extraordinary array of bizarre creatures, are much loved far beyond her Finnish homeland, with eve…
Wyvern Theatre, Swindon: The adventures of the giant-slaying Jack have rocketed up from fifth place to number one in the 2013 league table of the UK's most performed professional pantom…
The Tobacco Factory, Bristol: On the bounce from providing London's newest theatre, the St James in Westminster, with its first Christmas show last year, Bristol-based Travelling Light …
Old Vic, Bristol: The Bristol Old Vic has teamed with beatboxer Shlomo and musician DJ Walde to create the underwater vocal world for this highly entertaining modern version of Hans Christia…
Old Vic Studio, Bristol: The computer-animated dancing penguins in the Hollywood Happy Feet films have nothing on their skating counterparts in this imaginative Christmas show for the very y…
Bristol Old Vic Studio: The computer-animated dancing penguins in the Happy Feet films have nothing on their skating counterparts in this imaginative Christmas show for the very young at the…
Ustinov Studio, Bath: Sparky young women dressing up as men to go in pursuit of fickle lovers is in no way a device exclusive to Shakespeare. Here we have it cropping up even in the title of…
Ustinov Studio, Bath: Spanish master playwright Lope de Vega is believed to have penned 2,200 works, of which 300 are said to survive. So it is hardly surprising to find him represented twic…
Ustinov Studio, Bath: The now well-established spring and autumn seasons of three linked plays at the Ustinov in Bath has embraced a more traditional repertory theatre slant this time round.…
Theatre Royal, Bristol: With only nine cast members, a Greek chorus and a black actor playing Miss Havisham, this is no television-sanitised version of Dickens's great dark-hearted mora…
Theatre Royal, Bath: It is a while since the Theatre Royal Bath included an out-and-out French farce in its summer season. This year though, as if to make up, the management has decided to g…
Theatre Royal Bath: Come not between the dragon and his wrath, the once omnipotent Lear warns his loyal follower Kent at the start of Shakespeare's great tragedy. Sound advice amid the …
King Street Open Air Arena, Bristol: Needs must forced the Bristol Old Vic to stage its 2011 flagship production of Treasure Island on the cobbles outside its King Street home. The main hous…
Theatre Royal, Bristol: No fewer than five leading provincial theatres have teamed with ground-breaking theatre company Complicite for this ingenious adaptation of Zizou Corder's best-s…
Ustinov Studio, Bath: The growing reputation of successive seasons of new plays at the Ustinov is being enhanced this time round by a couple of A-list names among the cast. Diana Quick opene…
Tobacco Factory, Bristol: Good fortune continues to alight on Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory. Hard on news of a £121,988 Arts Council England grant, to improve the comfort of i…
Theatre Royal, Bristol: The creative team that brought War Horse to the stage, director Tom Morris and South African puppet company Handspring, have linked again for this challenging version…
Theatre Royal Bath: August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning exploration of the African-American experience is so ingrained in the cultural milieu in the States that it has long been a se…
