Bristol Old Vic begins with a series of blockbuster titles, produced in partnership with some of the UKs leading theatre companies. This production is just one of the ways Bristol Old Vic continues to strengthen connections across the city, providing for those with limited access to creative opportunities in Bristol and beyond.
The year also sees the start of a new partnership for the organisation as Executive Director Charlotte Geeves is joined by New Artistic Director Nancy Medina, taking up her post full-time from 1 Mar In the meantime, this spring sees us focussing on the things that connect us โ across our communities, across the region and the UK-wide theatre sector.
To allow even more people to take advantage of this priority booking period, Bristol Old Vic today launched a new membership scheme for anyone who wants to get closer to the action. Find out more here. A thought-provoking, wry and other worldly murder mystery, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a scathing reproach of toxic masculinity, the treatment of the marginalised, and the hypocrisy of institutional power. A story about coming of age in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, six young Egyptians navigate friendship, loss and secret Grindr dates in the city that made them.
You Bury Me speaks of a generation emerging from a national trauma, determined to live and love freely. Performed by a highly skilled company of disabled and non-disabled actors, circus performers, dancers and musicians, with an original score by award-winning composer Charles Hazlewood Paraorchestra and stunning design by Ti Green Touching the Void. Let the ruthless matchmaking begin again! But on her arrival at the station, a charged encounter with a dazzling young cavalry officer sends Anna on a course of action that could destroy her own marriage and tear her life apart.
Meanwhile, rejected by his beloved, Kostya Levin vows never to marry. As Anna opens herself up to love, Kostya tries in vain to shut himself off from it. Anna Karenina explores a world of fakery, public shaming and patriarchal oppression, where Anna and Kostya are compelled to live truly, and to truly live โ or not live at all. This partnership will be marked on Sunday 19 February in epic style with Bristol Old Vic hosting the final seven events of its edition. Join Sir Michael for live chats in his 80th birthday year, with two other beloved entertainers, Rob Brydon and Stephen Merchant.
