Kris Hallett
@krishallett
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Theatre Director, CTL of Performing Arts & Music @BathCollege @BTheatreAcademy. Previous AD of Fire Under The Horizon.
Bristol
Joined July 2010
My top 5 SW shows of 2024 5) REVERBERATION @BristolOldVic 4) DEAR YOUNG MONSTER @BristolOldVic 3) THE DEEP BLUE SEA @TheatreRBath 2) SOME DEMON @BristolOldVic 1) DEATH IN VENIC @WelshNatOpera @BristolHipp
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.@tftheatres Rapunzel: A Hairy Tale lands mostly with a solid inventive staging, lively music, but somewhat uneven pacing. Not a triumph, but a warm, seasonal tonic, witty, weird, and hairy enough.
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Christmas at the Tobacco Factory has become a ritual, a lantern lit each December against the winter dark. Audiences return year after year, drawn by the promise of invention and intimacy. Yet ritu…
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Tom Stoppard’s magic was present in everything he wrote but he was also the kindest, most supportive, most generous, man. With Pinter you always knew you were in the presence of genius but with Tom you somehow felt you might participate in it too. Et in Arcadia est.
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Gogol goes grotesque, Chekhov whispers in the wings. BOVTS takes The Government Inspector for a wild spin—brazen, brash, and biting. #Theatre #Review #BOVTS
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Chekhov, Michael, not Anton, was Stanislavski’s brightest star until he broke orbit. Out went the microscope of psychological realism; in came imagination, atmosphere, and the actor’s body as a tun…
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Safe to say i did not like this. Private Lives- Bristol Old Vic ☆
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Oh dear. Let’s quibble, Sybil. Private Lives, Noël Coward’s champagne-soaked classic, arrives at the Bristol Old Vic via a multi-venue co-production, and promptly spills the bottle. Painfully i…
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Before the overture, a donation plea hits like a high C—raw, real, slightly terrifying. Then Così Fan Tutte spins into action: satire in silk and champagne harmonies. Local opera is alive, kicking, and asking nicely for your spare change. @tftheatres
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Before a single note sounds, director Richard Studer strides on stage, not in character, but in crisis. His plea for donations cuts through the hush like a tuning fork, striking a chord of urgency.…
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Fiennes wraps his season with a fascinating curio.
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Version 2 is sharper than version 1. But it needs a version 3 to fully land where it wants to
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Busy old review schedule. Firstly Emma the play does what it wants to do very well. Unfortunately I felt it was deadly! But well done. Sometimes star ratings hurt my head
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Endgame with Douglas Hodge and Mathew Horne at Theatre Royal Bath’s Ustinov Studio – review https://t.co/d1DQj6CtmR
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From the producer who brought you a hot priest and an emotional reindeer, here's their new show about... death. OHIO a show that "lingers in its own quieter way" is proof that some questions are better left unanswered.
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Few producers know how to spot a Fringe success better than Francesca Moody. Having launched Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, she now brings Ohio to the Bristol Old Vic after its Fringe First win in Edin…
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Interesting it’s unusual for a company to set its stall by its greatest hits alone (though good for the books). I’d expect to see Romantics Anonymous and A Midsummer Nights Dream in the next couple of years.
Emma Rice Company and Theatre Royal Bath announce tours of Malory Towers and Tristan and Yseult in new partnership https://t.co/P6RdQaHZyj
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Trying a new thing: review roundups of major South West openings from all the trusted critics (and me). First up, As You Like It @TheatreRBath.
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Introduction Ralph Fiennes makes his Shakespearean directorial debut at Theatre Royal Bath with As You Like It, and critics largely agree that the production is thoughtful, actor-led, and heavily f…
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Amber James completely steals this play as Celia, sensational throughout. Made me want to see a sequel to her character; Celia: As She Wills It
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Excellent play in a perfect venue alert. David Harrower's Blackbird will play @UstinovStudio @TheatreRBath next April directed by man of the moment Matthew Dunster
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Shout out to Dunster, who tipped a wink to his directorial mate, making the rival academics book literally Dominic Dromgole's Astonish Me including the last chapter on Beyonce's Coachella performance.
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Why I believe so fundamentally in what we do @BathCollege @theeggbath and the L2 and L3 vocational courses in Performing Arts. The arts matter, the world and our young people are much diminished without it.
The number of students studying drama at A level has plummeted by 52% since 2010, according to research by @_CFTA . Read more 👇
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A theatre close to my heart, a launchpad for so many. I can't begin to articulate how important this place is, and how criminally it has been treated.
A Somerset council is proposing to increase residents’ taxes in a bid to refurbish the closed Octagon Theatre 👇
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