Bristol Old Vic
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South West
Lysistrata – Bristol Old Vic
Devised by: The Company Director: Julia Head and Xahnaa Adlam A two-thousand-year-old satire about a sex-strike to end the Peloponnesian…
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Opinion
GUEST BLOG: Hope & Humanity – the making of What Remains of Us
In December 2014, director Sita Calvert-Ennals and I watched a newsreel of an 80-year-old South Korean man trying to select…
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Review
The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk- Bristol Old Vic.
Writer: Daniel Jamieson Director: Emma Rice “Shall i tell you a secret? In 1914, Vitebsk wasn’t black and white at…
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Comedy
Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort Of) – Leeds Playhouse
Writer: Jane Austen Adaptor: Isobel McArthur Director: Paul Brotherston Jane Austen’s beloved Pride and Prejudice as a gender-blind, karaoke romcom.…
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Drama
Peter Pan – Troubadour White City Theatre, London
Writer: JM Barrie Director: Sally Cookson Reviewer: Stephen Bates Say it quietly but London theatre seems to be booming. 2019…
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Drama
Princess and the Hustler – Hull Truck Theatre
Writer: Chinonyerem Odimba Director: Dawn Walton Designer: Simon Kenny Reviewer: Ron Simpson Mention the phrase “bus boycott” and the mind…
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Drama
The Mountaintop – Bristol Old Vic
Writer: Katori Hall Director: Roy Alexander Weise Reviewer: Julia Beasley What was on Dr Martin Luther King’s mind in the…
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Drama
In the Light Everything is Brighter – 1532 Performing Arts Centre, Bristol
Devised by Wilderbeast Director: Patrick Bate & Thomas Davies Musical Director: Dominic Beddard Coll & Nell O’Hara Design: Chris Owen & Lydia Robertshaw Lighting: Oscar…
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