A theatre-in-the-round show that features an engaging soundtrack and inventive choreography, to plunge into the imagination of the otherworld.

The Invisible Circus return as the late night spectacle for Mayfest 2010. With gravity-defying circus acts, interactive theatre installations, live music and wacky vaudeville, you are once again invited into another world…

A powerful and visceral performance experience - described as an ‘individual playground’ - about five performers who are in search for a partner. In association with Richard Jordan Productions Ltd.

Travelling through Bristol’s streets, this performance walk explores the everyday thought patterns and concerns of the half-asleep commuter. Wearing wireless headsets, watch and listen as performers use movement, sounds and text to create a unique experience.

Dream-Home explores the return home at the end of the working day, and how our desires and hopes transform our immediate environment into a space for adventure and possibility.

A unique rock ‘n’ roll theatre event, set in a local boozer, that combines script-defying improvisation, live music and exceptional storytelling.

The stunningly original performances by New York composer John Moran and his collaborator return for Mayfest 2010 for further adventures. This time, exploring the lights (and darkness) of Bangkok, Thailand. Music, dance and theatre fuse.

An extraordinary story of two ice dancers in a world without ice. Combining poetic images, mime and comedy, 6.0 is a climate change parable of our time.

A delightful blend of playful songs and emotional acuity, exploring the story of two people meeting at a festival, and the events that follow. Lone Twin bring their unique style.

A unique mixture of cinefilm, clowning, puppetry and hurdling, to explore the narrative of Dad who trains for the Olympics by day and drags up by night.

Based on the claims of evolutionary psychology and amidst the threats of Peak Oil and Climate Change, this dark comedy show combines puppetry, striking visual effects and a fast-paced text. Performed and devised by Silvia Mercuriali and Matt Rudkin.

A curious combination of animation, puppetry and sea shanties, which explores three sailors trapped on a boat, aimlessly drifting, looking for land. Orbita take us on a voyage of discovery.

An exploration of romance and loneliness, and the ways in which the two are implicitly bound up together. Tinned Fingers create experimental live performance to explore ideas around nostalgia, iconic film scenes and late night radio stations.

A fantastical collection of arias, sea shanties, ballads and beat poetry, to celebrate the Welles-Ferry family reunion 2010. Raise a glass as the threads of the family history are woven together into this glorious cardboard extravaganza!

An extraordinary evening of puppetry, performance art, films and physical theatre, set in Bristol Old Vic’s Paintshop for this site-specific event. Curator, Lina B. Frank, has been staging Ausform Platform of Performance at the Cube Microplex.

A hopeful, celebratory narrative that explores the aspirations of a synchronised swimmer, weaving together personal experience with fictional elements, to create a ‘make do’ show.

Father and son, Peter and Simon Bowes, return to the stage, to bring a modest examination that invents what we cannot remember, and considers how we can get better with age.

This vibrant band return to transform the Bristol Old Vic’s Paintshop into an oversized nest to sing songs of loss, escape and redemption.

An edgy, atmospheric and sometimes unnerving show that combines film and live action with sampled sound and siren song, to explore half-remembered truths, gut feelings and fight/flight/freeze reactions to situations.

Performers, Lisa and Rachael, carry a tape recorder and ask people on the streets of Bristol what their show could be about. What they heard and recorded was funny, heartfelt, sometimes shocking, and revealing about what we can imagine when we look at someone.

An inducing show that explores the desire for success and the language of coercion, by inviting spectators to take part in a gameshow. There are no performers; each player is responsible for the ascension of the other through each seemingly impossible environment.

An ambiguous black comedy play that explores a young man moving back into his parents’ home, and discovering that little has changed. With his domineering mother and emotionally distant father, Jeremy becomes the focus of his parents’ struggle for supremacy. Commissioned and developed at BAC.

A fifty-minute of absurd comic mayhem. Two clowns share a love story and perform a Cirque-du-Soleil type of show, using only a chair and a box of cast-off vegetables. Winner of the Bewley’s Theatre Award at Dublin Fringe 2009.

A passionate, celebratory examination of modern-day feminism. Inspired by the anarchic aspects and the educational presentation of the 1970s documentary, Town Bloody Hall, Green challenges and inspires positive change to be made.

The flagship event of this year’s programme. Performed by Bristol Harbourside. Sitting on the outside looking in, the audience wear headphones and catch glimpses of the private lives of residents in the building.

An extraordinary show that weaves together the stories of a lifetime, with projected microscopic images and live musicians performing a powerful score. Shaw recounts her experiences of the medical profession from her perspective as a 65-year-old lesbian grandmother.

Performance artists, Rimat and Ashman, aim to explore the intertwined connections of falling on a literal, political, personal and physical level. Developed with the support of Arnolfini and Mayfest.

An intriguing layer of theatre, art, music, dance, food and hairdressing! In this debut, Stand and Stare invite you into their escapist, immersive world of weird, wonderful and sometimes dark truths about love, light entertainment and the state of humanity.

An innovating, magical fusion of storytelling with a distinctive combination of visual theatre, puppetry and masks. A lively and somewhat dark exploration of a small, lonely figure who is lured by the dangerous promise of flight.

Two performers and a musician use a ladder and a trapdoor, to conjure up the confines of the Smalls Lighthouse. A stormy tale of companionship and loss, The Plasticine Men aim to create extraordinary worlds that lurk on the edge of hearsay and history.

A one-man comedy show about computers, by someone who knows nothing about them. This performance contains poignant stories, and elements of a cardboard cabaret!

This final part of Rapley’s trilogy is an unstoppable show of fireworks or perhaps self-immolation. Different every night, this production was developed in association with Mayfest and Bristol Ferment.

An intimate solo show that is performed up close and partly promenade, which explores the narrative of Sachi, a Japanese woman’s personal journey to find ‘home’. Inspired by real life stories to celebrate this universal human aspiration.

The former is an examination of co-dependence, malicious domination and the subversion of the natural order, inspired by the paintings of Paula Rego, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Lassie Come Home. The latter is a work-in-progress show of love, loss and moonlight.

A promenade performance that combines physical theatre and live music, to explore the stories behind the headlines and the place where they catastrophically collide. It follows two boys who are smuggled into the UK hoping for a better life.

An interactive playful audio tour where the audience wear headphones and are guided through the aisles of a supermarket. This performance takes a swipe at consumer culture and a carefully constructed soundscape overlays a fictional world that blurs the real with the imaginery.

An interesting exploration of your own ambitions and place in the world. Audience members will receive a mystery parcel in the post, containing everything they need for you and a friend to create a miniature performance in your own kitchen.