Macbeth
(23 February - 3 March 2012)
Redgrave Theatre
Have you ever wanted to kill someone? Come on – be honest. Who’s getting in the way of your chance of happiness? If they could just not be there, how would it feel? The next bit gets messy, but once it’s over – blue sky! Most people never take the step from having the thought to the planning and (if you’ll pardon the word) execution… Could you be one of them? Could you do it? What if, afterwards, the blue sky turned black? Would the reward still be worth it? Take the journey with us. We promise you won’t have to kill anyone. But don’t forget… “BLOOD WILL HAVE BLOOD”
Wicked Women
(26 February 2012)
Redgrave Theatre
Directed by Malcolm McKee and Sue Wilson. This unique evening of wit, wisdom and wanton women is presented by Sara Coward and Sunny Ormonde who play two of The Archers' most popular characters - Caroline Sterling and Lilian Bellamy. They have starred in many popular television series and worked with many of the UK's leading theatre companies playing a variety of wickedly funny ladies from the Queen of Hearts to Shaw's Mrs Warren.
Time and the Conways
(9-17 March 2012)
Circomedia
Time and the Conways By JB Priestley Directed by Jenny Stephens 1919: The Conway family are in festive mood as they celebrate Kay’s 21st birthday. They play charades and dream of bright prospects, of satisfying careers and happy marriages. The ‘war to end all wars’ is over and their futures hold a golden glow. But their lives are not to be as they imagine. As the play shuttles through time, we delve into the family’s future and back again to where the seeds of their downfall are unwittingly sown. Priestley’s classic period drama is a masterful study of character that unpicks the notion of fate and our roles in our own destinies. Writing as the Second World War loomed, Priestley was clearly concerned that the nation had not learnt from history – a theme perhaps as resonant today as it was then. “There’s a great devil in the universe and we call it time.”
Cold Comfort Farm
(9 - 12 May 2012)
Redgrave Theatre
COLD COMFORT FARM SPONSORED BY JOHN LEWIS, CRIBBS CAUSEWAY by Paul Doust Adapted from the novel by Stella Gibbons Directed by Christopher Scott Stella Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm has found a place in the hearts of many devotees of the comic English novel, parodying as it does the romantic stories of D H Lawrence and Mary Webb. In Paul Doust’s hilarious stage play, the heroine, Flora Poste, embarks upon a quest to discover her family’s roots, and as a result the “nice girl from London” meets the rough and ready Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. Who can fail to enjoy her meeting the likes of evil old Aunt Ada Doom, the fey Elfine and the smouldering Seth. Come with us into a world where there’s something nasty in the woodshed, where porridge pulsates with the latent lust of rural romance, and the Sukebind draws you ever closer into an intrigue that will keep you gripped and laughing in equal measure. Bristol Old Vic Theatre School brings you the “Stars of Tomorrow in a Play for Today.”