Theatre Royal, Bristol (pre formation of Bristol Old Vic Company)
In 1942 the somewhat dilapidated Theatre Royal was sold by auction and bought for the people of Bristol. From 1943 some productions were mounted as an “offshoot” of the Old Vic, London hence the name Bristol Old Vic. It wasn’t until 1946 that the “Bristol Old Vic Company” was created with its first “official” production “The Beaux’ Stratagem”. Since that time the Theatre Royal has been the home of the Bristol Old Vic Company and the name of the company has become synonymous with the name of the theatre.
Therefore for the sake of consistency it seems appropriate that all listings after 1946 should be under the name Bristol Old Vic – Theatre Royal and all previous productions listed here.
Past productions
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Fear No More, The Company of Four
- Summer at Nohant, The Company of Four
- Madame Bovary
- Zoo in Silesia
- The Widow of 40
- Heartbreak House
- Mr Bolfry
- No Room at the Inn, Embassy Theatre Swiss Cottage Ltd and Millennium Productions Ltd
- Little Eyolf, Walter Hudd Company
- Acacia Avenue, Eliot Makeham and Guy Charles
- Violent Friendship
- Ballet Rambert
- Saint Joan
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Scandal at Barchester
- The Forrigan Reel
- The School for Scandal, The Arts Theatre Group of Actors
- Hamlet
- Man and Superman
- Ballets Jooss
- Murder in the Cathedral
- Hamlet, The Arts Theatre Group of Actors
- Getting Married, The Arts Theatre Group of Actors
- Candida
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Eden End
- Pygmalion
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Father Malachy’s Miracle
- The New Morality
- The Constant Couple, The Arts Theatre Group of Actors
- The Man with a Load of Mischief, UNA Plays Ltd
- Mine Hostess
- I Have Been Here Before
- Crooked Sapling, Norman Marshall
- Romeo and Juliet, Travelling Repertory Theatre
- Three-Cornered Moon, Travelling Repertory Theatre
- The Cricket on the Hearth, Travelling Repertory Theatre
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Lady from the Sea
- Love’s Labour’s Lost
- Abraham Lincoln
- Desert Highway
- Ballets Jooss
- Macbeth
- Ballet Rambert
- Madeleine
- Kate Kennedy
- A Trip to Scarborough
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