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Emma Rice’s acclaimed adaptation of Angela Carter’s Wise Children and Brook Tate’s family musical Mr Maglump will complete the line-up of Bristol Old Vic productions to be streamed live on YouTube as part of the new Bristol Arts Channel.
The announcement coincides with the theatre’s decision to extend the online run of the first of the venue’s five productions, The Messiah, after the acclaimed 2017 production attracted over 10,000 views in just six days. The theatre also announced the move online for the collaboration with Bristol Old Theatre School, New Plays in Rep, featuring a collection of new plays from local writers developed by Bristol Old Vic’s Writers’ Department.
Celebrating Bristol Old Vic’s Family Arts Hub, Mr Maglump will begin streaming on 12 June 2020 at 6pm. Developed as part of Bristol Old Vic’s New Plays in Rep season in 2019 and created in collaboration with Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, the first musical from Bristol-based artist and writer Tate attracted the attention of Andrew Lloyd Webber who travelled to the city to see the show in March last year.
Wise Children’s inaugural production Wise Children will begin streaming for a week from 19 June 2020. Directed by Rice and with a score by composer Ian Ross, the show was performed in Bristol to sold-out crowds in 2019. The Wise Children and Old Vic production was co-produced by the Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Oxford Playhouse and York Theatre Royal.
Mr Maglump will follow on from the Olivier Award-winning Old Vic production of A Monster Calls created in association with Bristol Old Vic, Jonathan Church Productions and Global Creatures which went online on 5 June.
The fifth and final production will be Bristol Old Vic’s critically-acclaimed The Grinning Man which will be available from 26 June until 3 July.
Directed by the theatre’s Tony Award-winning artistic director Tom Morris (War Horse) and based on the Victor Hugo novel The Man Who Laughs, the gothic love story premiered at the Bristol Old Vic in late 2016 before playing a successful season in the West End.
All performances feature additional material aimed at making the viewing experience as close as possible to the experience of visiting the theatre.
The Bristol Arts Channel has been created to bring together venues and artists from across the city’s vibrant arts community to create online programming during May and June.
Founding partners include Bristol Old Vic, Watershed, Colston Hall, St Pauls Carnival, Trinity, Spike Island, St George’s Bristol, MAYK, Arnolfini, Paraorchestra & Friends and Bristol Museums with support from Bristol & Bath Creative R&D and The Space.
Curated by Bristol’s cultural organisations, the programme will include streamed performances, both live and archived as well as interactive events, carnivalesque experiments, online galleries and mini-festivals.
The Open Session, Bristol Old Vic’s annual call out to writers based in the West Country is now open until 31 July.
Angela Thomas
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