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Playfight (BOV)
Playfight is a three-woman drama following a group of friends over the course of 10 years, through their GSCEs to navigating their first sexual experiences and working out what they want to do with their lives...

Paul Gainey
May 21, 20252 min read


Romeo and Juliet – Bristol Old Vic
Bristol Old Vic theatre hosted a modern take on Romeo and Juliet that breathes new life into Shakespeare’s classic tragedy with the bold addition of rap and R&B...

Paul Gainey
May 21, 20252 min read


Search for Goldini
In Search of Goldoni at the Bristol Old Vic’s Weston Studio is a new show which takes us through the streets of Venice to the hospital wards of Romford and into the inner workings of the protagonist’s brain as he desperately searches for shade from the storm in his mind...

Paul Gainey
May 21, 20253 min read


The Last Show Before We Die – Bristol Old Vic
The boldest, bravest and strangest show that Ell Potter and Mary Higgins have ever made may also be their last.

Paul Gainey
Feb 7, 20253 min read


The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Published in 1963, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the author’s best-selling breakthrough...

Paul Gainey
Feb 7, 20252 min read


The Complete World of Jane Austen
The Alma Tavern’s in house company Schoolhouse Productions brings us ‘The Complete Work of Jane Austen (Abridged).

Paul Gainey
Feb 3, 20252 min read


Gurt Haunted
This participatory, paranormal parody is both clever and silly but also immensely enjoyable throughout.

Paul Gainey
Feb 3, 20252 min read


Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson’s much-loved novel Treasure Island has been brought to life by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Paul Gainey
Feb 3, 20253 min read


Stable- Alma Tavern
A brand-new piece of writing from Theatre Nisha UK

Paul Gainey
Feb 3, 20253 min read


Billy: Twirling Through Time
Marshman focuses on amplifying queer stories through his own unique, multimedia visual language...

Paul Gainey
Feb 3, 20253 min read


Fawlty Towers
It’s heralded as one of the greatest sitcoms of all time...

Paul Gainey
Feb 3, 20252 min read


Dr Strangelove
Nuclear annihilation might not seem the obvious choice for comedy...

Paul Gainey
Feb 3, 20253 min read


Me and My Girl
BLOC Productions presents Stephen Fry and Mike Ockrent’s acclaimed revival of Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose’s Me and My Girl ...

Paul Gainey
Jan 31, 20253 min read


Reverberation- Keenly haunting
Grief begets isolation, and isolation begets loneliness in “Reverberation,” a keenly felt, haunting drama about two young people adrift...

Paul Gainey
Jan 31, 20254 min read


Double Feature, Hampstead Theatre
Alfred Hitchcock was a brilliant filmmaker, but he was undoubtedly also a complicated man with a penchant for manipulating and...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read


Hadestown, Lyric Theatre
It’s been a long road for mythological musical 'Hadestown' from American singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, stopping off at a 2010 concept...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read


Hamilton, Victoria Palace Theatre
Okay, let’s just get this out of the way. The musical ‘Hamilton’ is stupendously good. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s show about Alexander...

Paul Gainey
Feb 23, 20243 min read


Charlotte and Theodore, Ustinov Studio
Think male-female two-hander in academia and a pair of plays leap to mind: Oleanna and Educating Rita. Combining the lacerating fury of...

Paul Gainey
Feb 22, 20242 min read
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