Social Commentary

• Theatre / bristol old vic theatre school

  Preview: Clybourne Park

  BOV Theatre School stage this razor-sharp satire about race, housing and gentrification

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• Theatre / Jonathan Harvey

  Review: Beautiful Thing, Tobacco Factory Theatres

  An iconic piece of UK LGBT storytelling. re-staged for modern audiences

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• Theatre / Social Commentary

  Preview: Beautiful Thing, Tobacco Factory Theatres

  Two council-estate teens form an unexpected connection in early 1990s South London

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• Theatre / Social Commentary

  “This project has been life-changing”

  Bristol's Many Minds make theatre with young people who've faced homelessness and/or mental illness

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• Comedy / Social Commentary

  Interview: Fin Taylor

  Race, politics... now the war of the sexes gets the Taylor treatment

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• Theatre / Comedy

  Preview: An Indian Abroad, Wardrobe Theatre

  Bristol writer/performer Pariah Khan plays with stereotypes of travel, otherness, 'finding yourself'

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• Comedy / Social Commentary

  Interview: Marcus Brigstocke

  The brilliant comic and satirist trades in the angsty-posh-boy persona for Lucifer himself

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• Comedy / Tiff Stevenson

  “Everything I’ve been writing about for the last six years has been leading up to this”

  The brilliantly sharp Tiff Stevenson (Wardrobe, April 6) on keeping with the zeitgeist

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