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Bristol Old Vic Theatre School announces 2025 Summer Festival lineup
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School has announced details of its 19th Summer Festival season, with eight shows to be performed across four weeks at The Weston Studio.
Set up as four double bills playing on successive weeks (Thursday-Saturday), the annual student-led programme is seen as emblematic of the breadth and depth of talent of graduating BOVTS acting and directing students, and is, in the School’s words, “a true celebration of collaboration and creativity”.
Opening the festival will be Foxfinder, written by Dawn King – which won the 2011 Papatango New Writing Prize, and Lucy Prebble’s The Effect, which centres on two participants of a clinical drug trial who experience unexpected symptoms.
Ballyturk – artwork: BOVTS/Edward J Felton
The second week sees Enda Walsh’s Irish play Ballyturk, “an exploration of how two men’s lives unravel when they realise death has entered the room”, followed by Wild East, April De Angelis’ “apocalyptic haywire comedy” about one man and his unknown future.
Over the first weekend of June, Matt Hartley’s black comedy about ‘Generation Rent’, Deposit, is back-to-back with the George Devine award-winning play about “the inherited violence” affecting the female experience, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again by Alice Birch.
Revolt, She Said, Revolt Again – artwork: BOVTS/Edward J Felton
And wrapping up the festival will be the female four-hander, Splendour by Abi Morgan, and Liam Borrett’s debut play, This is Living, examining “love, loss and what it really means to say goodbye”.
For those unable to choose between the rich pickings on offer, festival tickets offer the chance to see all eight plays for a total of £40.
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Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Summer Festival is at The Weston Studio, Bristol Old Vic between May 22-June 14; there are four double bills in successive weeks, with shows at 7pm on Thursday-Saturday, and an additional 1.30pm matinee on Saturday.
Tickets are available at www.bristololdvic.org.uk, and shows are recommended for ages 14+.
Main photo: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School/Edward J Felton
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