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.
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.
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.
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?




















