Summer Festival 2024

EIGHT SHOWS. FOUR WEEKS. ONE VENUE.

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We’re returning to The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol’s beautifully intimate fringe setting, for our 18th festival season. It’s a celebration of collaboration and creativity, which sees the directing and design students taking the artistic reins across four double bills. From psychological thrillers, millennial sexual politics, dystopian Brits and young offenders preparing for fatherhood, we’re presenting a smorgasbord of contemporary brilliance.

Can’t choose? Treat yourself to a festival ticket and see all eight plays for the price of four! Click on each show below for more details, or visit the Wardrobe Theatre’s website.

Black Mountain by Brad Birch
23-25 May – Click here for full details
Directed by Anna Whealing, Designed by Holly Coulson

The River by Jez Butterworth
23-25 May – Click here for full details
Directed by Jon-Luke Goodman, Designed by Ally Williams

Scenes With Girls by Miriam Battye
6-8 June – Click here for full details
Directed by Alyssa Wint, Designed by Annabel Edkins

The Nobodies by Amy Guyler
6-8 June – Click here for full details
Directed by Belle Streeton, Designed by Annabel Edkins

Shook by Samuel Bailey
13-16 June – Click here for full details
Directed by Patrick Wilson, Designed by Sophie Land

Octopus by Afsaneh Gray
13-16 June – Click here for full details
Directed by Lydia Scott Johnson, Designed by Sarah Tring

Hymns by Chris O’Connell
20-22 June – Click here for full details
Directed by Jacob Whitehorn, Designed by Jess Brown

Some People Talk About Violence by Lulu Raczka
20-22 June – Click here for full details
Directed by Helen Morley, Designed by Millie Richmond