Productions
BSA DIPLOMA PRODUCTIONS
We are thrilled to announce our latest performances across our Extended Diploma Professional Acting course, and Dance course.
Tickets for all shows can be found below.

Table by Tanya Ronder
We remember. We forget. Then there are things we pass on. This defines a family’s history.
Six generations, twenty-three characters, one very special piece of furniture. Tanya Ronder’s thrilling play is an epic tale of belonging, identity and possessions passed down by their ancestors.
The sturdy, handcrafted dining table holds the stories of six generations; each scratch, crack and stain telling a story about their lives, and the lives of those before them. But which ones haunt us and which are forgotten? Stories of love, death, of faith and freewill.
Performed by Bristol School of Acting Extended Diploma Professional Acting Students
Directed by Frazer Meakin
Designed by Alana Ashley
Lighting Designer Tom Pitchers
Sound Designer Phil Zikking
Tobacco Factory Theatres
25 – 27 May 2023 | 7.30pm
Age: 14+
Content Warning: Gun shots, Sexual nature and strong language.

House of Bernarda Alba, A modern adaptation by Rona Munro, Originally by Federico Garcia Lorca
Following the gangland execution of her husband, the formidable matriarch Bernarda Alba will do anything to safeguard her family’s dubious fortune and the future of her five daughters.
A deal is struck – a marriage of convenience between her eldest girl and the son of a business rival. All Bernarda has to do is ensure that the wedding happens, and quickly. Five headstrong daughters cooped up in the family home in an emotionally charged atmosphere of bitter rivalry and repressed sexuality make that an epic challenge.
Performed by Bristol School of Acting Extended Diploma Professional Acting Students
Directed by Sam Bridges
Designed by Alana Ashley
Lighting Designer Tom Pitchers
Sound Designer Phil Zikking
Tobacco Factory Theatres
29 – 31 May 2023 | 7.30pm
Age: 12+
Content Warning: Loud Gun Shot and Suicide

Dance Nation by Clare Barron
“Cuteness is death. Pagan feral-ness and ferocity are key.
Everyone is nice.
Everyone is vulnerable.
And everyone is trying their hardest”
An army of competitive dancers are ready to take over the world, one routine at a time. Dance Nation shows the ferocious angst and ecstasy of a troupe of pre-teens, a mixture of the frightened and the feral, thrust into a world of cut-throat dancecompetition.
With a battle for power and perfection raging on and off stage, Clare Barron’s Dance Nation is a fun and ferocious exploration of sex and sensuality, confidence and ambition in young women.
‘Blazingly original. Dance Nation conjures the passionate ambivalence of early adolescence with sharpness and poignancy.’ New York Times
Performed by Bristol School of Acting Extended Diploma Professional Acting Students
Directed by Alison Reid
Designed by Alana Ashley
Lighting Designer Tom Pitchers
Sound Designer Phil Zikking
Tobacco Factory Theatres
1 – 3 June 2023 | 7.30pm
Age: 14+
Content Warning: Strong language, sexualised language, scenes of a sexual nature, depictions of blood and self-harm and references to cancer.
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