later given the more familiar name of The Arabian Nights should be prime material to be turned into theatre gold. Yet something has failed to spark in the Bristol Old Vic Christmas show; the writing ...

But, the latest adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Bristol Old Vic succeeds in doing just ... For those not familiar with the comedy, it centres around twins Viola and Sebastian ...

The production stars Jonathan Broadbent as Ben and Ferdy Roberts as Gus and will also include a selection of Pinter's mini masterpieces - his comedy sketches ... April in the Old Vic Studio.

a rich way into a comedy where the human and fairy worlds unsettlingly intersect and where magic juices play havoc with rational perception. The problem is that, in practice, the idea works only ...

This is what an audience at Bristol Old Vic got to find out on Saturday evening when he shared his top comedy moments, one of the many Slapstick Festival events the city played host to across the ...

Reeves and Mortimer have starred in several programmes together on TV, including Vic Reeves' Big Night Out, House of Fools and quiz show Shooting Stars. At the presentation at Bristol Old Vic on ...

Bristol Old Vic has announced it is to reopen for indoor ... followed by a live version of comedy panel show Who Said That? hosted by Mark Olver. On August 22, musicians Patrycja Kujawska and ...

Kemp Powers' fictional account of a real night sizzles in the Miami heat ... his voice soaring in the intimate confines of the Bristol Old Vic. Christopher Colquhoun is persuasive as a pious ...

and play Wils Wilson does with Shakespeare's chaotic, sharp-witted comedy ... political parallel, Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh's Twelfth Night is dated to the whimsical ...

Much of the fun and originality of Tom Morris’s restlessly inventive take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, made in collaboration ... wheels them away in a beat-up old pushchair. These might well be ...

Reeves and Mortimer have starred in several programmes together on TV, including Vic Reeves' Big Night Out, House of Fools and quiz show Shooting Stars. At the presentation at Bristol Old Vic on ...

For Shakespeare’s comedy of lovers, fairies and a big ass, Morris and designer Vicki Mortimer have chosen a workshop aesthetic – in the literal, rude-mechanicals sense. Even the nobles are ...