Five months after its forced closure on 17 March, Bristol Old Vic is set to reopen with a series of performances this August and September.
On Friday 21st Aug, Bristol stand-up Mark Olver invites an audience to join him for a game of Who Said That?, the comedy panel show in which four comedians dial in to ask each other questions and try to work out whose ridiculous, hilarious and occasionally baffling answers are whose.
Zoom-ing in to join us will be Jayde Adams, Luke Kempner, Robin Morgan and Lou Conran.
The game is simple - each round, one of the players asks a question which the other three must answer. They text their answers to Mark who reads each one out. The questioner's aim is to try and work out whose answer is whose with a point on offer for every one they match correctly.
Expect deceit, subterfuge, trickery and at least one person who doesn't quite understand what's going on so answers every question from the heart and is guessed immediately.
Bristol Old Vic will be announcing further productions that will take place in its café and bar throughout August and September very soon.
We begin with three tiny performances by brilliant and beloved Bristolian artists. And behind the scenes, we’ve already commissioned a series of experiments through Bristol Ferment, which will be performed in early September. Very shortly we will also announce new work by our renowned Young Company and collaborations with the Associate Companies and artists whose work has made our building sing with life over the last decade.
Our aim is to re-grow our programme gradually, ensuring that the audience experience is safe and the creative process properly protected, too. There will be pioneering experiments in hybrid live/streamed performance to give those who prefer to stay at home a front seat experience alongside the growing audiences we are able to entertain live.
The journey might be long before we can get close to the scale of work we were enjoying last year, but it’s exciting, too, giving us the opportunity to rethink our relationship with the city, and to take a leap forward in the style of work we can present and audiences we can welcome. This theatre must be for everyone in the city, sharing and celebrating the creativity of us all. And we are thrilled to be embarking on a new journey towards that goal this week.”
- Thu 20 Aug: Vanessa Kisuule
- Fri 21 Aug: Mark Olver presents Who Said That?
- Sat 22: Patrycja Kujawska & James Gow
