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Brave Bold Drama’s Root Festival continues through the summer

By Sarski Anderson  Monday Jul 8, 2024

Multi-award winning Brave Bold Drama are a working class and LGBTQI-led theatre and community arts company within Bristol.

Founded by co-artistic director Paul Lawless, their annual Root Festival is back for summer 2024 with a trilogy of outdoor family theatre shows taking place at Boiling Wells Amphitheatre, a few minutes’ walk from St Werburgh’s City Farm.

Following the interactive storytelling show, The Adventure Bureau which took place on June 29, will be Sticky Ends, on July 27, and The Munch Mission on August 17-18.

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Paul Lawless and Gill Simmons in Sticky Ends, Root Festival 2024 – photo: Brave Bold Drama

First performed in 2000 at the Edinburgh Fringe and restaged several times since, Sticky Ends is a show aiming to make “an absolute mockery of the traditional moralising that features so much in children’s theatre”.

With the opportunity for audience interaction and improvisation that is a hallmark of Brave Bold Drama shows, it is a funny and high-energy production that promises to be different every time.

Playable art heist The Munch Mission sees Lawless and co-artistic director Gill Simmons as agents Kahlo and Dali, who need to enlist the help of their audience members in solving the mystery of the missing Edvard Munch painting, The Scream.

Paul Lawless and Gill Simmons in The Munch Mission, Root Festival 2024 – photo: Brave Bold Drama

Brave Bold Drama’s Root Festival 2024 takes place at Boiling Wells Amphitheatre. Sticky Ends is 11am and 2.30pm on July 27 (tickets here), and The Munch Mission is at 11am and 2.30pm on August 17-18 (tickets here). For all news and upcoming events, follow @bravebolddrama.

 All photos: Brave Bold Drama

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