The Wardrobe Theatre
Independent theatre venue now part of the Old Market Assembly.
For five years, The Wardrobe was a little-known, miniature theatre above The White Bear pub in St Michael's Hill. With an expanding following and reputation for bold, imaginative performances The Wardrobe Theatre upgraded to a purpose-built new premises in Old Market. Sharing the building with the Old Market Assembly (from the team behind The Canteen), the Wardrobe Theatre are part of a new movement in the formerly neglected part of Bristol.
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Two vital conduits of French to English translation step out from behind the page to unpack their craft. With translator credits spanning from Houellebecq’s existential grit to Despentes’ punk provocation, they dissect the art of language migration - examining how the same sentence can shift through voice, tone, idiom and intent.
It's the festival closer! A fascinating look into the translation process, moderated by Ros Schwartz and featuring two top-tier translators!
Sell out warning! A genuine master at work! NYC escapee turned mountain musicologist Bruce Molsky is lauded as “America’s reigning old time fiddler”, offering a transportative journey across Appalachian old-time, Delta blues and Celtic folk through early rural rarities & soul-filled originals.
"One of the world's premier Appalachian-style fiddlers" - Bloomberg News
'Guitar, banjo, a wood stove and the wind': the credits for Cahalen Morrison’s last album say it all. With his haunting and poignant bluegrass, Cahalen could’ve scored the whole of Oh Brother Where Art Thou solo from a New Mexico shack.
An insightful and poetic wordsmith and songwriter, a subtle and accomplished roots multi-instrumentalist, and a captivating singer.
New queer classic in the making: in Cowboys and Lesbians, two teenagers escape the real life inertia of secondary school for the dream world of a sweeping South Western ranch romance - we’ve all been there. A comic coming-of-age charmer exploring desire, gender and fantasy.
Queer coming of age rom-com play
Sell out warning! Acclaimed experimental performance duo Emergency Chorus transport the Wardrobe Theatre to the wilds of Oregon National Park with Fringe-approved, fungi-inspired piece Landscape (1989). A surreal and meditative take on apocalyptic fiction for the climate collapse era.
Theatre show exploring the secret life of mushrooms