Six new shows announced for Spring 2024 at Bristol Old Vic

Six new shows have been announced this week to take their place in Bristol Old Vic's 2024 season, with tickets on general sale from Thursday 18 January. 

Heading to The Weston Studio this April is the world premiere of award-winning RnB gig-theatre piece No More Mr Nice Guy (3 - 6 April). This gripping story follows a British-Caribbean Music Teacher who is caught between his aspirations for senior leadership, a burning passion for a successful music career, and his yearning to marry the love of his life. 

This is followed by the return of Young Ferment, now in its 4th year, where Bristol Old Vic’s Artist Development programme, Ferment, collaborates with emerging writers, composers and performers from our Young SixSix and Young Company to present four 20-minute pieces (running 11-13 April). 

April ends with a 2023 Edinburgh Fringe favourite The Last Show Before We Die, (16-28 Apr). Written and performed by Ell Potter and Mary Higgins, this existential cabaret is about the big things in life. And death. It combines found audio with original interviews in a genre-bending verbatim feast.

Bristol Old Vic are also thrilled to announce that in July, the Papatango-Prize winning Some Demon, visits the Weston Studio. Sam’s eighteen and her life’s about to start. Zoe’s forty-something and hers never did. They don’t have much in common. Just a love of 80s' new wave, and an illness that wants them dead. 

In the theatre, Bristol Old Vic are delighted to welcome back two joyous nights of Reggae music. In April, The King of Reggae (24 Apr) returns, charting the life and times of the King of Reggae, from a government yard in Trenchtown to Rastafari icon, while on 12 July, the Old Vic is raising the roof in the Theatre with Rush: A Joyous Jamaican Journey charting Reggae music from the arrival of the Windrush Generation, and how these stories, history and music have evolved through the decades to take the world by storm.

These productions join the previously announced season which includes Bristol Old Vic world premiere productions Starter For Ten and A Child of Science, and visiting productions Black is the Color of my Voice, The Glass Menagerie, Nanny, Dear Young Monster, and It's a Motherf**king Pleasure, alongside family work Zog and the Flying Doctors, Dragons & Mythical Beasts and King Arthur.