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The Tobacco Factory Theatre has published its Annual Report for 2009/10. The Executive Summary describes ‘a successful year artistically and financially for the theatre and a year of significant growth.’ Most significantly this involved:

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In August we opened a second performance space - the 90 seat Brewery Theatre in North Street, 150 metres from the main TF. This building also has a superb rehearsal studio with fully sprung floor and the launch of these spaces has allowed us to increase the number of people we work with and the range of styles offered to our audiences.

2.

We hosted the first Bristol Festival of Puppetry with a series of performances and workshops in both of our spaces. The festival was a great success, selling almost every ticket and seeing an enormous puppet parade, created largely by local children, through Southville.

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We installed ventilation in the theatre, not before time, which has had a massive impact upon audience comfort. We also started to raise funds to install photo voltaic panels on the TF roof to power the system, working towards our aim of becoming carbon neutral within 5 years.

The full report can be downloaded from the right hand side of this page or from the About the Theatre page of this website.