Tobacco Factory Theatre

If you fancy going to watch a play, comedy, or a bit of Shakespeare then this is the venue for you. It’s small but intimate and the quality of the shows are always of a high standard.
Downstairs they have a bar that serves great food, and drinks, there is a small al fresco outside area and regular Sunday Markets and live music.
The Tobacco Factory is independantly owned and is part of a growing campaign to encourage and support independant business in the Bristol area, so go along and support the cause. It’s a ‘one stop shop’ for the perfect night out and one in which you will not be disappointed.

The Tobacco Factory Theatre is an independent business to the Tobacco Factory Café Bar, but they share access to the beer garden and each other, and of course, are located in the same building. The owner, the visionary and philanthropist, George Ferguson, leases the space to the theatre, who also offer acting classes as well as an impressive and innovative theatre programme.
There’s something special about theatre in the round. Before moving to Bristol and discovering this little treasure, I’d only seen one performance in the round before. It was an Oscar Wilde performance at The Corn Exchange in Manchester on St Anne’s Square. A lot of Wilde’s work is situational and so lends itself to this kind of treatment. Inevitably, I was a convert.
Since arriving in Bristol I’ve seen a number of productions at The Tobacco Factory. All of them have been consummate, but occasionally a little over-​ambitious. There are many restraints to a theatre in the round production, and as these theatres are rare, directors generally have little to no experience of it before they come to stage something here.