Award winning performance artist and glorified sequin wearer Scottee is coming to Bristol. Camp is his infamous, sell out variety showcase that features some of the world’s leading show offs: tap dancers, opera singers, banana smugglers – the works. In-house dance troupe Japan’s People throw shapes and shade between acts. Expect a mixed bill of camp clichés, limp wrists, game shows and catch phrases smashed together with television rip offs, some cheap outfits and lots of good old fashioned light entertainment. Suitable for mums, locals and homosexuals.

Peggy Shaw had a stroke in January 2011. The stroke was in her PONS, which rhymes with the Fonz, one of her many role models. Since then she’s realised she has never performed solo. She has always had a host of lounge singers, movie stars, rock and roll bands and eccentric family members living inside her. RUFF is a tribute to those who have kept her company, a lament for the absence of those who disappeared into the holes left by the stroke and a celebration that her brain is able to fill the blank green screens with new insights.

Rising is an evening of dance performed by Aakash Odedra. Aakash performs solos by renowned choreographers Russell Maliphant, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan, featuring lighting by Michael Hulls and Willy Cessa. Aakash also presents a contemporary Kathak solo choreographed by himself. All use Aakash’s background in Kathak and Bharatanatyam to create a new flavour of contemporary dance.

Rooted to the spot on a platform surrounded by light, the magnetic ballerina flutters, shivers and shimmers for her audience. Stark and intensely beautiful, Dance of the Magnetic Ballerina will imprint an image of a vulnerable, peacock-like dancer on your retinas. This is the UK premiere of Czech artist Andrea Miltnerova’s striking dance solo. Alone in a darkened auditorium, the magnetic ballerina will dance her way into our subconscious.

People of Bristol! Your beautiful city has been chosen as the beneficiary of a new type of socio-industrial experiment. With rumours that the proposed new nuclear builds at Hinckley and Oldbury will never rise from the mud, AtomKraft propose clean energy and mass employment at The Icon for Bristol, with nothing but benefits from a nuclear powered World-Class culture venue.

Join Tom Marshman on a walk around the old city, stopping by places rich in memories, as he unveils true stories of the local LGBT history. From the politically charged marches and protests, to the prosaic and the illicit, this walk-about performance celebrates full lives of a community through their stories.

What would we hear if, on one night, we could enter into a museum of sounds – the sounds that have resonated through the site of Leigh Woods across its history? The echoes of a fire crackling through an ancient camp, or tidal rhythms above a tropical sea bed, three million years ago? Perhaps the sound of the Earth slowly turning, or the groaning of oak trees upon an arctic tundra?

Inspired by the self-aggrandising of boxers at the pre-fight weigh in, Slap Talk is a verbal sparring match that is both a linguistic version of the fight itself and a reflection upon the violence present in everyday language.

Speaking to each other and to the audience via a live feed from a camera to a monitor, the performers rant, insult and threaten each other in a scripted version of a pre-fight press conference crossed with a 24-hour rolling news channel.

Artist and composer Ergo Phizmiz takes us on a multimedia family disco adventure into the wild and wonderful medieval magick rituals of England and Europe. With music, masks, projections, massive heads, and puppetry, accompanied by lots of dancing to modern pop hits and nostalgic novelties.

Four performers explode their own experiences of being men in this bold theatrical debut from ‘one of Scotland’s most interesting young theatre makers’ (The Scotsman). They recall the dark expanses of the Yorkshire moors, sing together full-throated and bold, recall poignant memorials of being a boy, and dance optimistically to the howling tones of Kate Bush.

New Art Club present an uplifting, life-affirming and hilarious spectacle about how we ‘feel’ about our bodies. Expect silliness, a man talking to his bottom and a lesson in what not to do during a heart attack. Sexy and intellectual, Feel About Your Body has already left some people feeling ‘a little bit dirty’. Warning: this show contains brief nudity (long enough to see ‘the works’), brief dancing (silly and emotional), and some puerile songs (there’s a really rather good one about a shed).

Prostitute, mistress, murderer. The brilliantly twisted Tiger Lillies take on one of theatre’s most seductive and intoxicating creations, Lulu. With 20 new songs and innumerable dark tales from the underbelly of the city, the Lillies combine cabaret, opera, video and delicious imagery to seduce, delight and terrify.

Lulu’s unbridled sex appeal, her youth, and her self-destructiveness combine to make her dangerous, unpredictable and tragic. With the men (and the women) who circle her, Lulu’s journey from street prostitute to the toast of society and back again, is told as a hypnotic and kaleidoscopic dance of death. Journey with her from Berlin to Paris and finally to the dark London streets of Jack The Ripper.

A razor sharp and darkly comic exploration of our universal desire to win.

Three intrepid contestants compete in a series of games, from the hilariously stupid to the arbitrary and downright heartbreaking. Chris, Jess and Ira fearlessly do whatever it takes to win - to please you, the audience.

Anarchic, thoughtful and unsettling, Gym Party speaks to anyone who frets about the state of the world – then gets distracted by a dumb celebrity tweet.

In November 2012, Greg stumbled upon the confession tapes of Ted Bundy, the American serial killer, rapist and necrophile. He couldn’t stop listening.

The Ted Bundy Project was born from a curiosity about the nature of charm, the label of ‘monster’ and the tension between attraction and repulsion.

Greg has a wig, a bit of rope, a few YouTube videos and Bundy’s confession tapes. Come and hear what he has to say to you.

9 jugglers, 80 apples, 4 crockery sets. You are cordially invited to a tea party that you will never forget...

At the forefront of contemporary circus for over 20 years, and having performed in over 40 countries, Gandini Juggling bring their award- winning sensation Smashed to Mayfest.

A rare opportunity to catch this global SMASH- hit in the UK, Gandini Juggling smash all your preconceptions about juggling to tiny pieces, in this mesmerising blend of circus and theatre, inspired by the work of Pina Bausch.

Winner of six major awards, including the coveted Scotsman Fringe First Award and the Stage Award for Best Actress (Silvia Gallerano) La Merda caused a big sensation at its 2012 Edinburgh Fringe World Premiere, returning in 2013 for a sell-out Fringe run and successful European tour.

In Cristian Ceresoli’s critically acclaimed angry play, a ‘young’, ‘ugly’ and literally naked Silvia Gallerano captivatingly reveals her revolting secrets, as she struggles with obstinacy, resistance and courage for her own celebrity breakthrough in the society of Thighs and Liberty.

Last year Molly saw an old school friend in a sauna. Rather than make small talk, she managed to hide from her in what’s essentially a small, hot shed.

It was weird.

It occurred to her that her relationship with her teenage self might be slightly dysfunctional. Part autobiography, part fictional story; If Destroyed Still True is about friendship, growing up and our relationship with our teenage selves. Contains loud guitars, the sea, and cringing.

Three women separated by a hundred years start a conversation across time. Their parallel experiences reveal shared imaginings of identity and escape, as menacing undercurrents steal into their solitary and reflective lives. As the landscape presses in on them, they draw upon the threads that connect them to survive.

Landscape II is a compelling solo work by Melanie Wilson. This bold hybrid of performance, film and sound art creates a minutely observed piece of new theatre.

You will clap. Even those of you who were a bit bored will clap because it’s a comfortable way to signal an ending.

The Future Show plays with what is expected, what is foreseen and what is ultimately unknowable about the future.

This Sisyphean task of a show tells the story of performer Deborah Pearson’s future, starting from the end of the performance and going until the end of her life. An existential twist on the autobiographical monologue, the script expires the moment it is spoken, and is rewritten for every performance.

A door opens and an immaculate figure steps out onto a roof. Knives are sharpened and the game begins... Set within the suspended reality of a brutal and unforgiving game, this breathless mix of intimate three-dimensional sound and the hair-trigger movement of free running will transport you into the body of a reluctant hero, desperate to stay alive.

Once in a while something raises the hair on the back of your neck. Something incredibly minimal, beautiful and breakable. This is that show. Small in approach, big in ideas.

When he was a child Nick Steur balanced rocks on top of each other. At a crucial time in his artistic career, he rediscovered this skill and created a performance with mindboggling stone sculpturing. No glue, cement or any other trick is involved.

Share some of his focus and realize that true happiness lies in the luxury of being occupied with one thing only.

Hannah has a dance collection; she has been gathering it for a while. Since 1999 in fact. She calls it ‘dancing like everybody I know’.

It’s in the detail, that’s what makes your dance so specific, whether you dance with your hips or your elbows, whether your eyes are open or closed. These details matter.

Delving into her dance collection she uncovers memories from her life revealing a look at how we come together and how we come apart.

As a child, Ben fell in love with butterflies. But when the wood behind his home was felled, the butterflies disappeared - with profound implications for his mental health. Psychiatric treatment helps him ‘cope’ with his severe depression, but should we really be medicating the ones who cry when a butterfly dies? This is the story of his journey from depression to recovery - a multi- layered scratch performance using sound and projection to weave an intimate portrait of loss and hope in the age of the Sixth Extinction.

Ariel is an intimate story told and retold in a library. It’s the story of Ariel and John, and of what they left behind. A re-working of a mystery and a love story.

Part audio walk, part installation, and part performance. Ariel is about what we create together, what remains of us, and of what our modern preoccupation with photography and documentation might reveal to us.

Tim Spooner presents the first manifestation of his new show The Assembly of Animals. Young audiences and families will be able to experience both the spectacle and the inner workings of an installation of delicately composed elements.

Puppetry, magic and scientific-demonstration combine into a kind of performed sculpture. On a slowly expanding stage, mysterious visions of amorphous objects, luminescent liquids and magnetic dogs will emerge from the darkness, then gradually reveal their mechanics.

Search Party are parents, they have a son born in the same year as ‘Baby Cambridge’, and that’s where the similarities end. My Son & Heir confronts the spectacle of the ‘New Royals’ and their strategic attempts to appear just like us. In a playful examination of the relentlessness of raising children, and the guilt-ridden one-upmanship of mainstream baby culture, Search Party consider what sort of man their son and heir will become.

In Constellations, choreographer Enrique Cabrera has taken the brilliantly abstract work of artist Joan Miró as his starting point and repeatedly fills his imaginary blank canvas with vivid colours, shape and movement. Wonderful dance, ingenious puppetry and terrific digital visuals are delivered with the trademark playfulness, creativity and style that mark this company out as one of the most accessible, and one of the best.

I Wish I Was Lonely is an interactive show about contactability. A show in which the audience must leave their phones on. A show investigating what it means to participate in communication – or not.

I Wish I Was Lonely is the new show from Fringe-First winners Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe that asks how much of ourselves we’ve given up to the Gods in our pockets.

A tender solo that looks at chronic pain and human resilience, Hardy Animal is a goodbye letter to a former self and an ode to dance.

Concerned with the human body and its failings, it tells of a dancer’s journey into immobility. Interweaving text and movement, it retraces a brutal journey of loss, and hope, and looks at our need to create meaning in a baffling world.

What better way to underscore conservative economic policy than with the sound of PURE EVIL? Part gig, part metal-recital, part exorcism, #TORYCORE combines sludge and doom metal with the Budget speech 2014; a pounding subverbal deathgrowl with text samples from the blue suits at Tory HQ.