Deposit/Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.

EIGHT PLAYS/FOUR WEEKS/ONE VENUE: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School heads to the Weston Studio for an exciting 19^th Summer Festival season. Join us for a celebration of collaboration and creativity, which sees our graduating directors and designers taking the artistic reins across four double bills.

From dystopian farms and clinical drug trials, to absurdist friendships and revolutionary politics, we’re presenting a smorgasbord of contemporary brilliance. Can’t choose which double bill to see? Treat yourself to a festival ticket and see all eight plays for just £40!

Deposit by Matt Hartley
Directed by Amy Iles
Designed by Katie Evans

“We’ve become savages, trampling over each other for a tiny bit of grass!”

Rachel and Ben want to buy their own place; as do their friends, Melanie and Sam. But with rising rental costs, cost-of-living crises and stagnant pay structures, saving for a deposit seems impossible.

The solution? Sharing a one-bed flat between the four of them. But with paper thin walls and space growing sparser by the day, which will they sacrifice first – the friendship, the relationship or the dream of buying their own property? An all-too relatable black comedy about ‘Generation Rent’ and lengths they will go to to get that first step on the property ladder.

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch
Directed by Ella Strauss
Designed by Lillyanna Bryan

“Act appropriately. Don’t break the rules. Just behave.”

Alice Birch exposes and obliterates the scripts we’re told to follow in this George Devine award-winning play: a series of intimate, sharp and darkly funny vignettes where language, behaviour and power collide, grieving the inherited violence that shapes womanhood.