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Picks of the month – November
Sink
This new play by Helena Middleton of the theatre’s own Wardrobe Ensemble is a fast-paced, physical journey that hurtles its heroine into the dangers lurking outside her bathroom door.
Wardrobe Theatre
is needed now More than ever
November 3-7
Tempting Failure
Aestival of live art, noise art and performance, featuring some 50 artists working at the more underground, conceptual and confrontational ends of the performance art spectrum.
Various venues
November 3-8
An Elephant in the Garden
Simon Reade adapts Michael Morpurgo’s children’s novel. 1945, Dresden: Lizzie, her mother and an elephant from the zoo flee the Allied fire-bombing, meeting an extraordinary cast of characters along the way.
Brewery Theatre
November 4-15
www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com
Gecko: Institute
Brilliant physical theatre company (with some of their roots in Bristol) return with this incisive dissection of the way we nurture and care for ourselves and each other. “A visceral, physical, intriguing treat,” enthused British Theatre Guide.
Bristol Old Vic
November 5-8
Welsh National Opera
Opera big-hitters return. Line-up includes Bizet’s fiery, passionate opera Carmen plus two Rossini offerings: the Exodus-inspired Moses in Egypt and Alpine epic William Tell.
Bristol Hippodrome
November 12-15
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