Mayfest 2018

10—20 May, 2018
Bristol, UK

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Programme

 After a year off, Mayfest is back, celebrating its 15th year of adventurous, thought-provoking theatre. Spilling out across the city, Mayfest playfully — and sometimes provocatively — champions extraordinary new work from artists with distinct voices, for audiences, whoever they are. From the heritage of St George's to the nightclubs of Old Market, Mayfest invites you to join in, play along and take a moment to reflect.

How To Book

For information on box office, group discounts and ticket deals.

Volunteer for Mayfest

 Our volunteers are a crucial part of the Mayfest team and we’re on the lookout for more fabulous people to join our ranks for Mayfest 2018.

What do the contemporary arts mean to you?

We are looking for people in Bristol to take part in an interview in return for a £10 shopping voucher.

Interview: Hope Azeda, Director of Mashirika Performing Arts and Media Company

 Last year MAYK collaborated with Mashirika Arts (Rwanda) and Theatre Factory (Uganda) and artist Caroline Williams to create Can You...

About

 Mayfest is Bristol’s unique international festival of contemporary theatre, dedicated to presenting a broad range of unusual, playful and ambitious work from leading theatre makers from Bristol, the UK and beyond.

Business Partnerships

 Mayfest is an internationally renowned theatre festival with a uniquely local flavour. Every two years, in May, Bristol comes alive with the very best local, national and international theatre. From specially constructed hotels on the harbourside to intimate one-on-one performances in cars at the top of multi-storey carparks, to gigs, parties and mind-blowing dance, theatre and circus, it’s eleven days of pure magic, not to be missed.

Profile: Doug Hream Blunt – How to Form a Band

 Sometime in the late 1980s, a San Franciscan by the name of Doug Hream Blunt signed up for an evening class, advertised through photocopied posters slapped-and-stapled to telephone poles: How to Form a Band...

Blog: I Fear Working Class Men, by Scottee, writer of Bravado

 Sometimes you have to say things that may annoy folk because it’s the only way into discussing a painful truth. My painful truth is that I fear working class men...

Blog: Fleur Darkin, Scottish Dance Theatre’s Artistic Director, on Velvet Petal

 I'm always invigorated by my time at festivals and each year seeing talented performers come of age during a celebration of artistic endeavour is very special. It's this transformation that fascinated me when I read Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids...