A daring and captivating promenade performance, that curates a distillation of interlinked choreography and aerial circus, with live and composed music, and played out on a moving and structural set.

A physically and emotionally engaging piece for audiences in public spaces. The audience wear headphones and travel through the streets of Bristol in this mixture of performance and locative media.

An exhilarating expedition of extraordinary moments from history and Niki’s imagination. Directed and co-devised by Guy Darthnell.

Movement artist, Itta Howie, explores ideas surrounding trace, and who haunts the ropes and winches of the fly floor. Presented in collaboration with Bristol University Theatre Department.

A dark and playful piece that integrates contemporary circus, physical theatre and digital media. Examines the relationship between real and fantasy, guilt and obsession, and a man and a woman.

A performance that combines elements of documentary and fantasy, to explore how a loss of memory contributes to the re-telling and re-mapping of stories and journeys.

A piece inspired by the traditions of a medieval buffoon, that weaves fantastical narratives with highly choreographed movement, to explore a village idiot’s confrontation with death.

An improvised, audience-led clown performance, that invites the performers to celebrate failure, and produce a show containing archetypes of a western.

An exquisite concoction of surreal visuals, vibrant movement, poetic text, a pulsing soundscape, and digital effects. This piece explores a reclusive everyman searching for his existence.

A performance that fuses new writing with classical texts, with physical performance and original music, to explore the unfolding relationship between Jack and Liz.

A continuation of Tim Crouch’s fascination with the nature of the theatrical experience, and the communication of ideas from actor to audience and back again.

A collection of performances by Marshman and other collaborators that aim to saturate their lives with all things sailory. Here, Marshman will also reveal his new identity for Mayfest 2008.

A contemporary, philosophical video-text work that looks closely at our relations with tigers, the wild, our desire to rescue and ‘adopt’, and our anthropomorphic corporate behaviour.

A poetic solo performance that is based on an accident at La Scala Theatre in Italy in 1913. Quartet indicates that theatre is determined by what happens in the minds of the spectators.

An experimental piece that opens at the end of a performance, containing a mixture of cultural references, performance styles and techniques.

An exact replica of Augusto Corrieri’s ‘Quartet’, performed by Donna Shilling, who reproduces every movement and gesture, inviting spectators to reflect on ideas of origin, authorship and identity.

A thoughtful performance and sound installation that forms a probing view of how cultures meet, eat, socialise and influence each other.

A re-working of Love Song Dedication and a work-in-progress piece, exploring how secrets and lies can shape, create and recreate a person’s identity.

An open, tragic-comic exploration of two men trying to make sense of their lives and the world through the stories they tell. Performed by David Woods and Jon Haynes.

A contemporary clown solo performance that explores the daily minutiae of life, through the perspective of an everyman.

A piece that centres around one man on a journey through a mysterious new world. This performance fuses clowning, puppetry, physical theatre, object manipulation and stunning visuals to transport audiences to an imaginative, playful world.

An engaging, poignant performance, made with a DIY, pop-up book aesthetic, that explores one girl’s experiences of adventure, achievement and isolation.

The Special Guests return to Mayfest after last year’s sell out night at the Country Sports Club. An adventurous cabaret that mixes raucous music and performance.

A piece that allows spectators to witness a re-telling and re-imagining of Search Party’s own attempts to become sports fans, exploring experiences of euphoric victories, bitter defeats, heroes and hope.

A piece where the performers are given different instructions every night. The company curate an experience that charms and jars the audience into viewing from different perspectives, exploring how we construct our own personas.

A unique half-an-hour experience curated for two people, exploring communication at its most delicate. You wear headphones that tell you what to say to each other, you just need to listen and respond accordingly.

An informal feast of short pieces located in the Alma Tavern Theatre, that showcase some of Bristol’s finest alternative theatre talents.

A dream-like landscape that presents haunting characters, this piece combines striking visuals and dazzling physicality to explore the fragile line between reality and illusion, our inner and outer worlds.