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• Theatre / Edinburgh Fringe

  A clutch of Edinburgh Fringe shows will transfer to a packed autumn season at Bristol Old Vic

  The series opens with the first of a five night run for ‘Bitter Lemons’ on September 5

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• Theatre / Reviews

  Review: Hamsters, Hamilton House – ‘A tale of love, friendship, dysfunction, and the tiny animal at the centre of it all’

  Talkers and Doers theatre company bring new writing from Rosalie Roger-Lacan to the stage

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• Theatre / new writing

  Review: The Realistic Joneses, Ustinov Studio, Bath

  Beautifully evocative play about our everyday big questions

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• Theatre / new writing

  Review: The Disassociation of Shirley Mason, Bristol Old Vic

  Haunting, beautifully staged portrait of a key figure in psychoanalytic history

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• Theatre / vic llewellyn

  Review: A Little Death, Bristol Old Vic

  A study in loneliness - and some masterful storytelling from Vic Llewellyn

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• Theatre / amy mason

  Review: Hollering Woman Creek, Bristol Old Vic

  Amy Mason's journeys through Texas, abortion and the death penalty

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• Theatre / Dancing Brick

  Preview: Heather, Tobacco Factory Theatres

  Thomas Eccleshare asks: what matters more, the story or the storyteller?

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• Theatre / Interview

  Interview: playwright Lucy Bell on ‘Pulling Out’

  On her witty, poignant, true-to-life play inspired by young fathers' experiences

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