News
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BRAND NEW SEASON ON SALE!
We had a packed May - August 2013 Season launch on Tuesday, where we presented our brand new programme for the next few months. And now its all on sale! You can browse our What’s On pages to find out whats coming up. You can also view the brochure here, download it here or you can pop in and see… Read more...
Posted by Jo on Fri 05 April 2013 at 1:01 am in News, Weekly Update, Feature and tagged with 2013, brochure, launch, May - August, new, season - Permalink
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May – Aug 2013 Season On Sale dates (including Daniel Kitson)
We’re currently excitedly awaiting the arrival of our new season brochures, for the May – Aug 2013 season. They’ll be under wraps until next week, and then the fabulous new season will go on sale on the following dates. Wed 03 April 10am Priority Booking for Tobacco Factory Theatre Fans and Business Club members. Plus, those signed up… Read more...
Posted by Jo on Thu 28 March 2013 at 1:01 am in News, Weekly Update, Feature and tagged with brochure onsale, Daniel Kitson, May - Aug Season, new season, onsale dates - Permalink
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World Cup? What World Cup? Non-football-related things to see this week
This week there are all sorts of goodies in store for fans of theatre, comedy and music. It all kicks off tomorrow when edgy disabled comedian Liz Carr arrives in the Brewery with her critically acclaimed show It Hasn’t Happened Yet. Plunging chair-first into territory where few dare to go, Carr challenges conventional perceptions about comedy, ambition, insecurity, fame and… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Mon 28 June 2010 at 1:01 am in News, Weekly Update and tagged with comedy - Permalink
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Weekly Update: 4 June 2010
Next week Bristol Old Vic’s budding young thesps arrive at the TF to prepare for their end of year production Translations, which opens on Thursday. A twentieth century classic by perhaps Ireland’s foremost living playwright, Translations is a powerful, moving and at times very funny drama about an Irish-speaking community in Donegal at the time when the British Army are… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Fri 04 June 2010 at 1:01 am in News, Weekly Update and tagged with no tags - Permalink
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What to do over the next week…
Mayfest is over and we’ve had a couple of days of well earned quiet here, after no fewer than 27 performances in just over a fortnight. Tomorrow things kick off again in earnest as we welcome City of Bristol College to the Brewery with their first and final year students’ summer productions. Kebabylon is not for the feint-hearted. Based on… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Wed 26 May 2010 at 1:01 am in News, Weekly Update and tagged with no tags - Permalink
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Mayfest week 2: Sleep-deprived but loving it…
After a rather thrilling first week of theatrical mayhem, Mayfest part deux gets off to a flying start tomorrow night with the premiere of Keepers, a brand new show by the Plasticine Men, a Bristol-based double act that includes Ffion Gill, who may be familiar to you from his work with Precarious (Druthers, Anomie) and Lost Spectacles (Lost in the… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Mon 17 May 2010 at 1:01 am in News, Weekly Update and tagged with Mayfest, Script Space, Susan & Darren - Permalink
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Mayfest week 1: We have lift off…
Mayfest kicked off on Friday night with the premiere of the Mark Bruce Company’s Love & War, an extraordinary dance-theatre show that took me to places I never knew existed. It’s been flooring the critics, too, receiving great reviews in local web-rags Suit Yourself Magazine and Make Me Neon. The show is now heading off on its national tour, so… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Mon 10 May 2010 at 1:01 am in News, Weekly Update and tagged with comedy, dance, Mayfest - Permalink
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30 April 2010: Fame, frocks and false eyelashes…
Fame, frocks and false eyelashes… Our packed summer season kicks off on Wednesday when ground-breaking theatre company Graeae’s new show Signs of a Star-Shaped Diva opens at the Brewery. What better way to get as far away from election fever as possible than with this escapist tale of undertaker Sue and her alias Tammy Frascati, a cabaret singer who wends… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Fri 30 April 2010 at 1:01 am in Weekly Update and tagged with Mayfest, shakespeare - Permalink
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Weekly Update: 3 March 2010
Midsummer madness! Last week we broke TF box office records as tickets flew out of the door for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The show has now sold out and continues to receive rave reviews from audience members and critics alike. You can read what all the critics thought in full via the Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory website. Here are… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Wed 03 March 2010 at 1:01 am in Reviews, Weekly Update and tagged with Shakespeare - Permalink
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Weekly Update: 19 February 2010
There’s lots to tell you about this week, including a round-up of reviews for A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Department of Smelling Pistakes, a sneak preview of what’s coming up in next week’s Prototype, and much, much more… REVIEW ROUND-UP: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Those of you who follow Twitter will have picked up on Lyn Gardner’s (The Guardian)… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Fri 19 February 2010 at 1:01 am in News, Reviews, Weekly Update and tagged with Dream, Edinburgh, Prototype, Shakespeare, SITE, Smelling Pistakes, theatre-makers - Permalink
