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Wondermart  
Rotozaza
Friday 7th - Saturday 22nd May

A mischievous swipe at the dominance of supermarket culture and consumerism.

Love and War  
Mark Bruce Company
Friday 7th - Saturday 8th May

A startling theatre-in-the-round dance piece from Tobacco Factory Associates The Mark Bruce Company.

 

Mayfest Opening Party  

Friday 7th May

So, it's the day after the general election, and we'll have all been up the night before. What better excuse then, to have a party the next day?

 

 

Carny Village  
The Invisible Circus
Friday 7th - Saturday 15th May

The Invisible Circus return as the late night spectacle for this year’s Mayfest at their city centre venue The Island.

Kitchen Sink Drama  
Once - arts & ceremonies
Friday 7th - Saturday 22nd May

Whose turn is it to do the washing up tonight then?

Forest Fringe Microfest  

Saturday 8th - Sunday 9th May

Intimate performances, works-in-progress, audio and video installations and much, much more.

 

 

 

Internal  
Ontroerend Goed
Sunday 9th - Tuesday 11th May

We are five performers in search for a partner...

6.0: How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won  
Dancing Brick
Monday 10th - Thursday 13th May

After an award-winning Edinburgh run, the thrilling young company Dancing Brick return to The Brewery.

 

 

BOXED  
Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra
Monday 10th - Tuesday 11th May

A beatboxing adventure...

John Moran and his Neighbour Saori... In Thailand  

Monday 10th - Tuesday 11th May

John Moran and Saori return to Mayfest following their hit show in 2009.

Dream-Work/Dream-Home  
Bodies in Flight/ Spell#7
Tuesday 11th - Friday 14th May

Two performance walks that invite you to take a fresh look at your city.

 

Pub Rock  
Cartoon de Salvo
Tuesday 11th - Thursday 13th May

Following their hugely successful show Hard Hearted Hannah (Mayfest 09) Cartoon de Salvo are back in Bristol with their new show Pub Rock.

Dogger, Fisher, Faero & The Last Romance Club (Ever)  
Orbita & Tinned Fingers
Tuesday 11th - Wednesday 12th May

Join us for a double bill of work in progress performances by exciting Bristol-based companies.

Sporadical  
Little Bulb Theatre
Wednesday 12th May

"Boundlessly enthusiastic, insanely optimistic and inexpressibly charming." The Guardian

Everything Must Go  
Kristin Fredricksson
Thursday 13th - Saturday 15th May

An award-winning show exploring the life of Fredricksson's life – from dosshouse childhood to dancing on graves.

 

 

 

 

The Festival  
Lone Twin Theatre
Tuesday 11th - Friday 14th May

A chain of events alters a private world to devastating effect when two lives cross at a festival of music and song.

 

Five Fat Fish   
Jasmine Loveys
Thursday 13th - Saturday 15th May

An invitation to join the first ever meet of the Bristol Synchronised Swim Team.

 

 

Ausform Platform of Performance  

Thursday 13th May

Welcome to Ausform - an imaginary landscape full of beauty.

the moment i saw you i knew i could love you  
Curious
Friday 14th - Saturday 15th May

A new performance about gut feelings; fight, flight and freeze reactions; impulse, love and undefended moments.

 

Dean Gibbons and the Knowledge of Death  
Inconvenient Spoof
Friday 14th - Saturday 15th May

A darkly comic new show that combines live action, puppetry, a fact-packed text and striking visual effects.

Trilogy  
Nic Green - Presented by the Arches
Friday 14th - Saturday 15th May

A celebratory venture into modern-day feminism.

No Idea  
Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spence with Improbable
Friday 14th - Saturday 15th May

This is a picture of Rachael and Lisa. They wanted to make a theatre show but couldn't think of an idea.

Where We Live and What We Live For  
Kings of England
Saturday 15th May

Inventing what we cannot remember, together we consider how to get better with age.

Famous Last Words  
Greg McLaren
Saturday 15th - Sunday 16th May

An automatic gameshow-cum-cult induction ceremony, ingeniously built into an innocuous looking caravan.

We Are Nothing Like Birds  
The Master Chaynjis
Sunday 16th May

Tender, intimate, and all covered in bird shit; The Master Chaynjis return to Bristol Old Vic for their first show of 2010.

The Poof Downstairs  
Jon Haynes
Sunday 16th - Monday 17th May

A ciruitous and ambiguous black comedy.

Cirque de Légume  

Sunday 16th May

50 minutes of comic absurd mayhem. Two idiots put on a Cirque-du-Soleil type show using only a chair and a box of cast-off vegetables.

MUST - The Inside Story  
Peggy Shaw and Clod Ensemble
Monday 17th - Tuesday 18th May

Legendary New York performance artist Peggy Shaw takes the audience on a journey across the landscape of her own body.

Keepers  
The Plasticine Men
Tuesday 18th - Wednesday 19th May

Two performers and a musician conjure up the confines of the infamous Smalls Lighthouse.

 

 

 

 

Falling For You  
Sylvia Rimat and Kate Ashman
Tuesday 18th - Wednesday 19th May

Performance artists Kate Ashman and Sylvia Rimat set out to explore the intertwined connections of falling on a literal, political, personal and very real physical level.

The Human Computer  
Will Adamsdale and Fuel
Wednesday 19th - Thursday 20th May

A skewed stand-up quest to the wiry heart of the cyber web.

Triptych  
Wattle & Daub Figure Theatre
Wednesday 19th - Saturday 22nd May

Triptych fuses innovative storytelling with a distinctive combination of visual theatre, puppetry and masks.

 

 

Electric Hotel  
Fuel
Wednesday 19th - Saturday 22nd May

A uniquely designed, fly-by-night hotel on Bristol's harbourside brought to vivid life through dance and sound.

 

 

 

SS Arcadia  
Stand and Stare
Thursday 1st - Thursday 1st January

An immersive world of bizarre, wonderful and dark truths about light entertainment and the state of humanity.

 

 

 

Who Knows Where?  
Edward Rapley
Thursday 20th - Saturday 22nd May

Different every night - a show of fireworks or perhaps self-immolation. An unbearable. An unstoppable Flow of Lava. A Dinner Party.

Everything Falls Apart  
NIE
Friday 21st - Saturday 22nd May

The story of two boys smuggled into the UK hoping for a better life and one man’s pursuit of justice at all costs.

 

Cutting The Cord  
Flying Eye
Friday 21st - Saturday 22nd May

Confused, fatalistic, loyal, Sachi is a young Japanese woman on a personal journey to find a 

STAY! + Around the World in a Lunar Day  
Stacy Makishi
Friday 21st - Saturday 22nd May

A hilarious examination of co-dependence, malicious domination and the subversion of the natural order.

Cutting the Cord  
Flying Eye
Friday 21st - Saturday 22nd May

Where do you come from? Where are you going? When you are miles away from the place of your birth, can you ever feel truly at home?

 

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