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Theatre / RepresentAsian

Arnolfini welcomes second edition of successful South Asian storytelling night

RepresentAsian returns on March 25, with the theme ‘small things, big feelings’

Theatre / Reviews

Review: BOVTS presents: Paradise, The Station – ‘Gritty and confident; full of feeling and flare’

This reimagined Sophoclean tragedy was written by Kae Tempest

Theatre / storytelling

Storytelling extraordinaire Clare Murphy is back in Bristol with ‘The Liar King’

She is resident at The Wardrobe Theatre from April 1-4

Theatre / Queer theatre

Luke Hereford’s ‘Nice Things: A Queer Love Story’ to visit The Wardrobe Theatre

The playwright and theatremaker won acclaim for his debut play ‘Grandmother’s Closet’ in 2022

Theatre / feminism

British-German theatre collective tackle the deep roots of medical misogyny

Fish in a Dress take us back to 1880s Paris, ‘The City for Incurable Women’

Theatre / Owl on the Roof Theatre

The Knowle-based theatre company born in a greengrocers

Owl on the Roof was once based in the former ‘Broadwalk Fruit and Veg’ shop

Theatre / Reviews

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bristol Old Vic – ‘A vibrant and impressive Shakespeare adaptation that feels like contemporary theatre’

It’s a bold adaptation that reimagines the verdant forest as a wintery landscape

Theatre / Reviews

Review: A Grain of Sand, حبة رمل, The Weston Studio, Bristol Old Vic – ‘A valiant and disturbing work of art’

Sarah Agha is the sole cast member in a tale told through the eyes of a Gazan child

Theatre / Global Majority

Naomi Denny brings award-nominated play about sibling grief to The Weston Studio

Her work aims to tell the unknown stories of individuals from the Global Majority

Theatre / Taylor Ayling

Bristolian theatre director’s new play inspired by his experience as a general builder

Social Immobility is described as a ‘construction site farce’

Theatre / World War II

Review: The Last Picture, The Weston Studio, Bristol Old Vic – ‘Nothing short of masterful: a timeless work of art’

Catherine Dyson’s play explores empathy: ‘its power, its limits, and what it asks of us’

Theatre / Bristol Legends

‘A smorgasbord of all the great things that Bristol has to offer’

Doug Francisco says Bristol Legends celebrates "the coming together of the old and the new"

Theatre / Reviews

Review: Creepy Boys: SLUGS, The Wardrobe Theatre – ‘Spectacular, absurdist, surrealist, rage-fuelled, hilarious – and furiously honest’

Sam Kruger and S. E. Grummett are back in Bristol after their hit debut ‘Creepy Boys’

Theatre / Reviews

Review: Macbeth, Tobacco Factory Theatres – ‘Shakespeare’s text sings in a production underscored by two huge performances’

It’s a near six-week run of the Scottish play south of the river

Theatre / Shakespeare

Actor Danny Kirrane on the genius of modernising Shakespeare

He plays Bottom in the upcoming Bristol Old Vic production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

Theatre / Reviews

Review: Indian Ink, Theatre Royal Bath – ‘Gentle, tender and beautiful, with excellent performances’

Felicity Kendal stars in the first revival of Tom Stoppard’s play in decades

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