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SUMMARY:Leave Taking - The Weston Studio
DESCRIPTION:Winsome Pinnock’s landmark debut play Leave Taking\, directed by Nancy Medina\, comes to The Weston Studio for a major 40th anniversary revival. \nLeave Taking premiered at Liverpool Playhouse in 1987. It won the 1991 George Devine Award. In 1994\, it was the first play by a Black British woman to be produced by the National Theatre. \nSet in North London\, Leave Taking follows Enid\, a British-Jamaican mother who came to Britain as part of the Windrush generation\, and her teenage daughters Del and Viv. As Enid works to hold the family together\, she turns to Mai\, an Obeah woman\, and family friend Broderick for guidance. \n 
URL:https://backstagebristol.com/event/leave-taking-the-weston-studio/
LOCATION:The Weston Studio BOV\, BS1 4ED
CATEGORIES:The Weston Studio of Bristol Old Vic
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SUMMARY:Until I Find You- The Weston Studio
DESCRIPTION:Alma is a mother searching for her missing daughter\, one of the many people who have disappeared without trace in Mexico. As she looks for her daughter\, Alma finds others living through the same nightmare. Families come together\, strangers become lifelines and what begins as a solitary struggle grows into a collective act of resistance. \nCreated by internationally acclaimed\, multi-award-winning theatre companies Ad Infinitum (UK) and El Ingenio del Caldero (Mexico)\, Until I Find You combines fierce\, raw physicality with powerful storytelling.
URL:https://backstagebristol.com/event/until-i-find-you-the-weston-studio/
LOCATION:The Weston Studio BOV\, BS1 4ED
CATEGORIES:The Weston Studio of Bristol Old Vic
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SUMMARY:Uncle Vanya - Bristol Old Vic
DESCRIPTION:Bristol Old Vic’s RYTDS Associate Artistic Director Rikki Henry brings a thrilling new vision to Chekhov’s tragi-comic masterpiece Uncle Vanya\, in an English version by David Lan and in co-production with Stratford East. \n“I’ve let my life slip away when all these years I could have had everything – which now I can’t because I’m forty-seven!” \nRelocated to a rundown office: dripping water cooler\, towering filing cabinets and reams upon reams of paper. Time stands still. Windows 95 chimes. The phone rings\, and rings\, and rings. \nIn the midst of a midlife crisis\, Vanya\, his dedicated niece Sonya and the local doctor Astrov are visited by Alexander\, the widower of Vanya’s late sister and Sonya’s father\, and his glamorous new wife Yelena. Vanya has spent years financing their lavish city lifestyle\, only for Alexander to arrive with the surprise declaration that he intends to sell the business. \nWhile Vanya and Astrov appear to fall under Yelena’s charms\, Sonya is less convinced. Polite facades quickly crumble and long-repressed\, vodka-fuelled confessions of love have devastating consequences. \nBristol Old Vic Associate Artistic Director Rikki Henry’s wonderfully creative concept won plaudits at Theater Dortmund in 2023. Now\, in an entirely new English language production and using David Lan’s “notably sharp\, bright translation” (The Times)\, Chekhov’s classic is brought to darkly witty life once more. \nAre we all condemned to live the lives we started\, or is fundamental change possible?
URL:https://backstagebristol.com/event/uncle-vanya-bristol-old-vic/
LOCATION:Bristol Old Vic\, BS1 4ED
CATEGORIES:Bristol Old Vic
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270502
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SUMMARY:The Butterfly Project - The Weston Studio
DESCRIPTION:“If they’re going to fetishise me\, I’m going to do it right back.” \nA Japanese stewardess and a British pilot walk onto a plane. 30 years later\, their son Joey is thinking of ending things with his Italian boyfriend. \nTurning to his parents’ interracial relationship for guidance\, he embarks on a journey to connect with his roots. \nBut as Joey learns more about his family\, a pattern begins to emerge: the notes of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly underscore a century of Asian misrepresentation\, orientalism\, and exoticisation. \nConnecting Milan to Nagasaki\, Hong Kong to London\, The Butterfly Project is an irreverent look at the stories that shape us\, whether we like it or not. \nOriginally produced by Undone Theatre\, presented by Kakilang and Undone Theatre\, The Butterfly Project is part of Kakilang’s 20th anniversary season\, touring across the UK in 2027.
URL:https://backstagebristol.com/event/57673/
LOCATION:The Weston Studio BOV\, BS1 4ED
CATEGORIES:The Weston Studio of Bristol Old Vic
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SUMMARY:Let The Whale Die - The Weston Studio
DESCRIPTION:You killed a whale\nThe Whale killed itself \nGirl’s one job was to keep the aquarium’s star orca whale alive. \nSpoiler alert: the whale dies. \nHer mother\, her husband\, her boss\, the entire world want to know: \nWhy? How could she?? What is wrong with her??! \nEveryone wants answers\, but Girl doesn’t wanna give ’em. \nWhat seems like a crisis to everyone else\, feels like a new beginning for Girl. As she tries to maintain her new outlook on life\, pressure closes in from all sides. Can she move forward\, or will she hit her head on the glass? \nNew Perspectives and Royal & Derngate’s Let The Whale Die\, is a strange and unsettling journey into the mind of a woman who’s stopped explaining herself and has no intention of giving people what they expect. \n 
URL:https://backstagebristol.com/event/let-the-whale-die-the-weston-studio/
LOCATION:The Weston Studio BOV\, BS1 4ED
CATEGORIES:The Weston Studio of Bristol Old Vic
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SUMMARY:Disco Dracula - Bristol Old Vic
DESCRIPTION:Bristol Old Vic and Disco Dracula Productions have co-produced Disco Dracula – a hilarious\, bloodsucking romp of a new musical. \nIt’s like if Rocky Horror and Saturday Night Fever had a baby – and then that baby ate you. \nTired\, stale couple John and Mina just want a normal night out. Instead\, they’re lured into a disco vampire lair where the drinks are strong\, the grooves are deep and the Count is holding auditions for eternity. As Dracula and his Brides turn up the seduction\, John and Mina’s crumbling relationship is put to the ultimate test: can two people who can barely make it through date night survive a rendezvous with the Lord of Darkness? \nAs the night goes on\, and the stakes get higher\, Stayin’ Alive becomes a challenge as John and Mina learn the true meaning of Till Death Do Us Part… \nWith an infectious original disco score\, jump scares\, conga lines\, and – most frightening of all – audience participation\, Disco Dracula is a musical comedy fever dream of gothic horror proportion. \n 
URL:https://backstagebristol.com/event/disco-dracula-bristol-old-vic/
LOCATION:Bristol Old Vic\, BS1 4ED
CATEGORIES:Bristol Old Vic
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270624
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SUMMARY:Being Mr Wickham - Bristol Old Vic
DESCRIPTION:Pride and Prejudice’s most roguish gentleman\, George Wickham\, on the eve of his sixtieth birthday\, lifts the sheets on what exactly happened thirty years on from where we left him… and discover his own version of some very famous literary events. \nBeing Mr Wickham stars Adrian Lukis\, who played Mr Wickham in the renowned 1995 BBC TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
URL:https://backstagebristol.com/event/being-mr-wickham-bristol-old-vic/
LOCATION:Bristol Old Vic\, BS1 4ED
CATEGORIES:Bristol Old Vic
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SUMMARY:Dog Man The Musical - Bristol Old Vic
DESCRIPTION:Dog Man: The Musical is hilarious new musical for anyone aged 5+ is based on the worldwide bestselling book series from Dav Pilkey\, the creator of Captain Underpants and Cat Kid Comic Club. Best friends George and Harold have been creating comics for years\, but now that they’re ten\, they figure it’s time to level up and write a musical based on their favourite character\, Dog Man\, the crime-biting sensation who is part dog\, part man and ALL HERO! How hard could it be?
URL:https://backstagebristol.com/event/dog-man-the-musical-bristol-old-vic/
LOCATION:Bristol Old Vic\, BS1 4ED
CATEGORIES:Bristol Old Vic
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270704
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SUMMARY:Housemates - Bristol Old Vic
DESCRIPTION:Housemates is by Hijinx and in association with Sherman Theatre. \nIn the 1970s\, Alan\, a young man with Down’s syndrome\, crashed into the life of student Jim. Alan had lived as a resident in a Cardiff Hospital since childhood; all he wanted was to live in a house and be in a band. Jim wanted to make a difference in the world\, but didn’t know how. Together with their friends\, they embarked on an experiment that transformed how things were done\, how people were treated and who got to tell you how to live. This was the beginning of the end of institutionalised care and the birth of Supported Living. Performed by a cast of neurodivergent and neurotypical actor-musicians\, Housemates packs a punch and touches the heart.
URL:https://backstagebristol.com/event/housemates-bristol-old-vic/
LOCATION:Bristol Old Vic\, BS1 4ED
CATEGORIES:Bristol Old Vic
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SUMMARY:Merrily We Roll Along - Bristol Old Vic
DESCRIPTION:The Bristol School of Acting will be getting a summer run in the main house of Bristol Old Vic with their production Merrily We Roll Along. \nIt’s the drama school’s biggest production so far and the first time the school has staged a production on the main stage of Bristol Old Vic. \nWith a cast of 20 and on-stage band of 12 musicians from West End productions – including choreography by Rachael Nanyonjo – this promises to be a stellar show. \nHow did you get to be here? \nWhat was the moment? \nMerrily We Roll Along answers those questions in reverse\, moving backwards in time from 1976 to the hopeful beginnings of 1957\, tracing the fractured relationship between composer Franklin Shepard and his lifelong friends\, Mary and Charley – and the choices that shaped their lives. \nAs the years unwind\, a heartbreaking but hope-filled story is brought to life through an unforgettable Sondheim score\, including Old Friends\, Now You Know\, and Not a Day Goes By.
URL:https://backstagebristol.com/event/merrily-we-roll-along-bristol-old-vic/
LOCATION:Bristol Old Vic\, BS1 4ED
CATEGORIES:Bristol Old Vic
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