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Dateline: 18th January, 2004 Shakespeare in Bristol The details for the fifth season of Bristol's Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory have been announced:
Evening performances begin at 7.30 p.m. except Thursdays, when they begin at 8 p.m. Later in the year the company will be transferring the plays in repertoire for a five week season in the Barbican Pit starting 25th September, 2004. The company was set up just four years ago with two ambitions - to produce work of the highest quality and to build a commercial operation on the foundations of private investment by theatre enthusiasts. The aim was to exist for five years producing two classical plays each spring. The response by audiences and critics more than credit the first ambition and the investment allowed the company to meet its budget for the first four years. The company has now become a charity and the original 'founders' have requested that artistic director Andrew Hilton continue to produce his annual offering of plays for a further five years with, maybe, a wider brief. The opriginal aim of the company was to give theatre-goers in Bristol an opportunity to see large-cast professional productions in an intimate space. The initial aims outlined by Andrew Hilton, the Artistic Director, were to include "intelligent, passionate acting, great story-telling, the most lucid and elegant response to Shakespeare's language - where there will be no attempt to modernise or to simplify". Past Productions
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