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Dateline: 2nd May, 2006
Bristol Old Vic News Mayfest, an annual month-long festival showcasing the best in local, national and international physical and visual theatre is under way at Bristol Old Vic Studio and runs until 27th May. Among the artists and acts featured are Eva Magyer, previously seen in Kneehigh's production of The Bacchai, Ockham's Razor, Hoipolloi, Sketty Productions, Big Mouth and Johnothan (COR) Pram. Poets John Hegley and Adrian Mitchell bring A Great Night Out in aid of a Kenyan orphanage on 21st May, followed by Theatre Alibi's adaptation of Dick King-Smith''s novel, (28th June - 1st July), The Crowstarver. The play promises inventive storytelling, live music and puppetry and is aimed at audiences aged eight and over. July sees the arrival of a Salisbury Playhouse production of N C Hunter's A Touch of Sun which is produced and directed by Joanna Read. A West End hit in the 1952, the play is billed as a sharply-written and humorous exploration of the journeys taken to reach happiness. July in the Studio sees two contrasting plays from Chrysalis Theatre and Progress Theatre in association with Theatre West. Viral Sutra (July 25-29) plays for five days prior to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The play is preceded by Little Pictures. Fresh from a tour of Latvia, the play centres on three football fans. Other productions in the forthcoming season include Circomedia's Cold Blood (Warm Heart) (June 21-24), Moliere's Tartuffe in a production by the Royal College of Music and Dance (May 31-June 3) and the South West Academy of Dramatic Arts' staging of Return to the Forbidden Planet (June 27-July 1). Restoration, Edward Bond's comic portrayal of seventeenth life above and below stairs, is among the highlights of the autumn/winter season at Bristol Old Vic. The production, staged in association with Oxford Stage Company, pits town versus country; old money versus new money, can be seen in Bristol from September 6th to the 17th. The show is followed by the Christmas family production which this year is an adaptation of Alexander Dumas' classic swashbuckling tale, The Three Musketeers (December 2-January 20). Reporter: Pete Wood Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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