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When Covid hit, actors and backstage crew members – the lifeblood of Britain’s theatres – were forced to forge a...
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Bristol Old Vic Theatre School has clocked up 75 years producing the leading lights of the arts and entertainment industry....
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On Sunday (30 August), some of the biggest names from the worlds of theatre and music joined forces in a unique collaboration to bring the performing arts out of lockdown. On this bank holiday weekend, a weekend which would have normally been filled with festival events at Glastonbury Abbey, some...
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How good is your knowledge of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic? And what is its significance in today’s world? Words...
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From Oprah Winfrey to Osama bin Laden, many have been subject to the South Park scalpel over the years. Say...
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Two historians with a healthy interest in alcohol are heading for Bristol’s Hen & Chicken this month, having cleverly transferred their expertise from the page to the stage to produce some cracking ‘alco-demic’ comedy theatre Dynamic drinking duo Ben MacFarland and Tom Sandham met back in their twenties while working...
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Jenna Morice reviews Cyrano, a Bristol Old Vic production in association with the Hong Kong Arts Festival, on at Bristol...
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Jenna Morice reviews Ad Infinitum’s Extraordinary Wall of Silence, on at The Weston Studio at Bristol Old Vic until 19...
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Playwright Dougie Blaxland talks to Melissa Blease about his brand new play, Getting the Third Degree, at the Wardrobe Theatre in October “He was, without doubt, the architect of cool. There was a touch of David Bowie about him because he kept reinventing himself every four or five months: there...
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It’s seven years since the smash-hit stage production graced the city and this autumn it’s back with marvellous music, movement...
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Jenna Morice reviews FullRogue’s Wild Swimming, on at Bristol Old Vic from 10–21 September Over the course of 400 years,...
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The president of Disney Theatrical Productions talks to Holly Williams ahead of The Lion King’s return to Bristol Hippodrome It’s day one of rehearsals at a studio in Bristol that’s filled with beautiful puppetry, masks and costumes for a new UK and Ireland tour of The Lion King, and the...