Family Life By Mark Ravenhill
March 27th 28th 29th at 7:30pm
Jack and Lisa: two ordinary teenagers who want to have a baby. Only problem is Lisa keeps vanishing –literally - into thin air. Their friends Barry and Stacy have the same problem. Stacy is eight months pregnant. But Barry keeps vanishing in front of her eyes.
Soon, they discover that first their friends and eventually the whole world are dematerialising. With Lisa and Barry faded away to nothing, Jack’s flat is requisitioned by the army and given over to a parents and babies group. But when finally everyone else vanishes for good, there’s only Jack and Stacy left in the world. It’s up to Jack to deliver Stacy’s baby.
Six month on and Jack and Stacy are the only boy and girl on the planet. For Jack it’s a dream, for Stacy a nightmare. And when the vanished start to return, Jack has to learn how complex adult relationships are.
A Vampire Story By Moira Buffini
Friday 14th March and Saturday 15th March (Mat and Eve)
‘People will always believe the most fabulous tale you can tell. It’s the one that they secretly long for. It must be unprovable, impossible, fantastical. To believe it then becomes an act of faith.’
Claire and Ella keep moving, town to town, job to job, school to school, never staying too long in one place, stealing names faking identities.
Claire tells people they are sisters
Ella tells people they are 200 years old
Claire tells people their parents are dead
Ella tells people she will never die
Claire tells people Ella makes things up
Ella tells them she is a Vampire
Coming in February to the Bristol Old Vic Studio
Monday 18th February – Saturday 23rd February (Half-Term)
Theatre Impossible III
Its back! The project in which the Bristol Old Vic challenges 25 young people aged 8 to 11 to devise, write, rehearse and perform a show in one week. With the help of professional directors, designers stage managers and technicians the group will take a classic adventure story and bring it to the staqe with costume, set, lights and sound in only 5 days.
Download the Youth Theatre Registration Waiting list form
Appearing this month in 1984
Title: Rosencantz and Guildenstern are Dead Author: Tom Stoppard