154 stories by "Jeremy Brien"
Tobacco Factory, Bristol: You can`t keep a bad man down. No sooner have archaeologists confirmed that it was Richard III`s skeleton that lay buried beneath a Leicester carpark, than here we …
Tobacco Factory Brewery, Bristol: Tobacco Factory theatre director Ali Robertson has assembled the usual eclectic mix of Christmas entertainment, closing off each day with this entertaining …
Tobacco Factory Brewery, Bristol: Time is running out in the Lost Present Department.
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Theatre Royal Bath: Theatrical all-rounder Nichola McAuliffe appears to be making the Theatre Royal Bath her second home. Here she is in flamboyant form as the Wicked Queen in Snow White, at…
Wyvern, Swindon: When Keith Chegwin starred as Buttons at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon last Christmas, it was announced he would be returning this year in Jack and the Beanstalk. Plainly, h…
Bristol Hippodrome: First Family Entertainment has introduced the modern concept of work sharing into this year's Christmas spectacular at the Bristol Hippodrome.
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Bristol Old Vic Studio: This appealing Christmas show for the under-sevens in the Theatre Royal Studio in Bristol is a bit like pressing the red button on a television remote control and fin…
The Egg, Theatre Royal, Bath: Who could resist the story of an innocent little girl with a heart of gold who changes the lives of everyone she meets?
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Tobacco Factory, Bristol: The Tobacco Factory Theatre goes from strength to strength, especially at Christmas time. Last year's highly unusual Cinderella has transferred to the West End…
Theatre Royal, Bristol: Sally Cookson cut her teeth as a Bristol Old Vic director with Christmas shows for the under-sevens in the Studio. It was a good grounding. For here she is in charge …
The Ustinov Studio, Bath: Ustinov Studio artistic director Laurence Boswell always makes a point of directing one of the new works in his excellent repertory season, now an established and m…
Creative Common, Bristol: If The Invisible Circus truly lived up to its name, in the style say of a play by Pirandello or a piece of music by John Cage, this review should consist of nothing…
Theatre Royal Studio, Bristol: Fledging Bristol theatre company Idiot Child, already making favourable ripples in their home city, are out on tour for the first time with this offbeat one-ma…
The Ustinov Studio, Bath: The creative theme behind the third season of repertory at this studio theatre is bringing strong literary works to the stage for the first time. It is what goes on…
Theatre Royal Studio, Bristol: One of the mantras of Bristol Old Vic artistic director Tom Morris is to tackle innovative work in conjunction with other theatre companies. The theme is much …
Theatre Royal, Bristol: Plays about the theatre can often have a curate's egg quality, and this Restoration romp by prolific Irish writer John O'Keeffe, chosen by Bristol Old Vic a…
Theatre Royal Bath: Adrian Noble, the third distinguished director to be parachuted in for the summer season at Bath, has form over Shakespeare's magical final play. It was the hit of t…
Theatre Royal Bath: Any playwright who can conjure a meeting of minds between Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein, as Terry Johnson did in Insignificance, should find a fictional confrontatio…
Brass Works, Kingswood: Although the big theatrical news in Bristol this summer is the re-opening of the Theatre Royal following its £10 million facelift, brand new small-scale ven…
Theatre Royal Bath: After eight years under the aegis of Sir Peter Hall, the baton of responsibility for the high-profile summer season at the Theatre Royal Bath has passed to the in-house p…
Gate Farmhouse, Alveston: Gloucestershire's Festival Players, who have doubled their size this year with the take-over of actor-manager Wendy MacPhee's London-based Theatre Set-Up,…
Various venues: Bristol Mayfest co-founders Matthew Austin and Kate Yedigaroff, who have recently set up their own performance production company MAYK, again teamed up with the Bristol Old V…
Ustinov Studio, Bath: A film that opened in America this week, titled Hysteria and starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rupert Everett, tells the history of the female vibrator from Victorian days…
Wickham Studio, University of Bristol: Controversial playwright Sarah Kane had already stirred so many theatrical hornets' nests with the savagery of her onstage violence that she used …
Bristol Old Vic Studio: These two short plays are being staged in the Bristol Old Vic Studio ahead of this September's phased re-opening of the entire Theatre Royal complex. They are am…
