The festive season is finally upon us, the change in season heralded by smell of mince pies, the taste mulled wine, and the sound of pantomime emanating from almost every theatre. But this year, instead of spending December taking my normal dive headfirst into a...
The memory of the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic is one synonymous with the sight of towering pyres across the countryside, great thunderclouds of smoke billowing from piles of burning cattle. It’s an image most will never forget, even if only witnessed on TV, livestock...
Theatre 503 have announced that they are to open their autumn season with Bea Roberts’ And Then Come the Nightjars, the theatre's first co-production with Bristol Old Vic, and the first of two productions from the winners of Theatre503’s inaugural Playwriting Award. From west country writer...
Rwanda, 1999, and the population is still coming to terms with a genocide perpetrated half a decade ago. An unarguably awful occurrence, it's one of the - thankfully - rare occasions where a population can accurately be described as having been decimated. Decimated. Meaning more...
In an age of green screens and CGI, visions of dystopian futures are ten a penny, blurred into one worrying mess of segregation, killings and protagonists rising up against the systems that oppress them. A saturated movie market, this fascination is beginning to break onto...
Writer - Ken Urban Director - Jonathan O’Boyle Designer - Celia Carey Sound Designer - Max Perryment Lighting Designer - Joshua Pharo Theatre503 have announced the world premiere of award-winning playwright Ken Urban’s Sense of an Ending, marking the 21st anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Directed by Jonathan O’Boyle, this...
Writer - Emma Adams Director - Lisa Cagnacci Designer - Max Dorey Lighting Designer - Johanna Town Composer - Timon Wapenaar Sound Design - Max Pappenheim Following the success of the widely-acclaimed WINK, the next play in Theatre503’s season of new writing will be Animals. Marking Associate Artistic Director, Lisa Cagnacci’s...
We’ve all envied someone else, at one time or another. Looked at their life and longed for our own to be just like that. Be it multi-millionaire poker player Dan Bilzerian, with more guns, cars and houses to his name than some small American states,...
"It's a family show," is usually marketing code for "designed for kids. Grown ups should bring a good book, and anyone coming without a child will be regarded with the suspicion of one peering in a classroom window." As far as shows with the “family”...
Director - Tom Attenborough Writer/Performer - John Woodburn Writer/Performer - James Dunnell-Smith Writer/Performer - Joshua George Smith Musician/Composer - Mark Newnham Movement Director - Polly Bennett Production Manager - Heather Doole Set Designer - Simon Wells Producer - Alice Carter Theatre503 have announced their first ever family festive show, brought to us by award-winning...