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BSA DIPLOMA PRODUCTIONS

Productions by our students on the Extended Diploma Acting and Musical Theatre courses will appear here when they are on sale.

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THE MASTER AND MARGARITA

28 – 30 May 2026 | Tobacco Factory Theatres

By Mikhail Bulgakov | Adapted by Edward Kemp

“What happens when the Devil comes to town?”  

When a mysterious stranger arrives in Moscow, reality begins to unravel. At the centre of the storm are the Master, a persecuted writer, and Margarita, who will risk everything for love. As dark forces close in their story becomes a powerful search for truth, freedom, and redemption.  

This adaptation is performed by final year Diploma students of Bristol School of Acting and supported by Degree Technical Theatre Arts students. 

Directed by Helena Seneca

Design by Ryan Webster

 

 

Crime and Punishment

4 – 6 June 2026 | Tobacco Factory Theatres

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Adapted by Chris Hannan

‘Everybody wants to change the world. Nobody thinks to change himself.’

Chris Hannans exciting and fresh adaptation of one of the most extraordinary novels of all time gets inside the mind of a starving, destitute student who commits a brutal murder and embarks on a dangerous cat and mouse game with the examining magistrate. As his guilt and alienation from society intensifies, only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, offers any hope of redemption.

This adaptation is performed by final year Diploma students of Bristol School of Acting and supported by Degree Technical Theatre Arts students.

Directed by Cameron Thorne

Design by Ryan Webster

 

 

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