2023

Texts

  1. I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy (January)
  2. Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan (January)
  3. Galatea: A Short Story – Madeline Miller (February)
  4. Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver (February)
  5. Visiting the Minotaur – Claire Williamson (March)
  6. Walking Distance – Lizzy Stewart (April)
  7. Here – Richard McGuire (May)
  8. Becky – Sarah May (May)
  9. Shy – Max Porter (June)
  10. Days of the Bagnold Summer – Joff Winterhart (June)
  • Sea of Tranquility – Emily St John Mandel
  • Ghosted – Jenn Ashworth

Theatre

  1. The Nutcracker – Bristol Old Vic (January)
  2. Jersey Boys UK Tour – Bristol Hippodrome (January)
  3. Royal Ballet’s Like Water for Chocolate – Live from the Royal Opera House (2022) (January)
  4. Complicité’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Bristol Old Vic (January)
  5. The Crucible – NT Live from the National Theatre (January)
  6. Girl From the North Country UK Tour – Bristol Hippodrome (January)
  7. My Fair Lady UK Tour – Bristol Hippodrome (February)
  8. Heathers the Musical UK Tour – Theatre Royal Windsor (February)
  9. You Bury Me – Bristol Old Vic (February)
  10. Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty – Bristol Hippodrome (March)
  11. Young Vic’s Oklahoma! – Wyndham’s Theatre (March)
  12. Kandinsky’s The Winston Machine – Bristol Old Vic Weston Studio (March)
  13. Almeida Theatre’s A Streetcar Named Desire – Phoenix Theatre (March)
  14. Waldo’s Circus of Magic and Terror – Bristol Old Vic (March)
  15. Theatre Ad Infinitum’s If You Fall – Bristol Old Vic Weston Studio (April)
  16. Royal Ballet’s Cinderella – Live from the Royal Opera House (April)
  17. Impermanence’s Venus – Bristol Old Vic (May)
  18. The Devil’s Violin’s The Beast in Me – Tobacco Factory Theatres (May)
  19. Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort Of) – Bristol Old Vic (May)
  20. The Commitments UK Tour – Wales Millennium Centre (May)
  21. Red Rope Theatre’s Tales of the Grimoire – Ashton Court Mansion (June)
  • Actors Touring Company’s Family Tree – Tobacco Factory Theatres (June)
  • Hamnet – Swan Theatre at the RSC (June)
  • Anna Karenina – Bristol Old Vic (June)

Films

  1. The Banshees of Inisherin (January)
  2. Tár – Watershed (January)
  3. Corsage – Orpheus (January)
  4. Women Talking – Watershed (February)
  5. The Menu (April)
  6. Triangle of Sadness (April)
  7. Calamity Jane – Bristol Film Festival at Averys Wine Cellars (May)
  • Broker
  • MEN
  • Licorice Pizza

Series

  1. Our Flag Means Death (January)
  2. My Mad Fat Diary (1-3) (April)
  3. Colin from Accounts (May)
  4. The Witchfinder

Visits & Experiences

  • Hidden Gallery Bristol’s In With the New Opening (January)
  • Lewis Capaldi – Cardiff International Arena (February)
  • Windsor (February)
  • Lizzo – London O2 Arena (March)
  • Self Esteem – Eventim Apollo (March)
  • Devon (March)
  • Action on Poverty’s Night of Comedy – Alma Tavern & Theatre (April)
  • Camenae de Cymru’s Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons & Selected Arias – All Saints Church Clifton (May)
  • Eurovision Watch Party – Watershed (May)
  • Cardiff (May)
  • Rhossili (May)
  • Edinburgh (June)
  • Stratford-upon-Avon (June)

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