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CRIPtic Arts: The Acts – The Weston Studio

January 23 - January 24
1. Pruu the Pidj The first painting depicts a brightly coloured pigeon with blue and purple brush strokes. Behind them stands a housing block with a yellow and white orb hanging in a dark night sky. In front of the pigeon are sharp spikes of black and pink, with mixed media scattered around including string, rollerblades, and distorted words printed.

CRIPtic Arts presents… The Acts! Coming to Bristol Old Vic on 23 and 24 January 2026.

The Acts is a gathering of four daring new works from some of the UK’s most exciting disabled theatre makers.

Caitlin Magnall-Kearns weaves a love story of desire, guilt, and ageing with tender humour in The Ache of It.

Kathrine Payne’s dark comedy body job follows two lovers as they collide and unravel, exploring the growing phenomenon of lonely deaths in the UK and the tangled realities of shame, labour and love.

Tatum Swithenbank conjures REALMS, a spell-like journey through folklore, disability, and magick.

SO SHA  invites us into Pruu the Pidj, a music-led ritual about survival, softness, and finding home in unlikely places.

In a cultural moment that asks disabled artists to fit into neat boxes, The Acts asks what happens when we refuse. When we choose mess, ritual, pleasure, grief, humour, and grit. When we make art on our own terms.

CRIPtic Arts: The Acts has Captioned, Relaxed and BSL performances.

Featured Image Artwork by Rachel Gadsden

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