Current Productions NEW SHOW: Fanny & Johnnie Cradock Cook The Great American Songbook
Fanny and Johnnie Cradock cook up a storm in Show of Strength’s new show launching in Bristol restaurants in July 2012.
With Kate McNab an John Telfer as cookery’s most infamous TV couple.
Recent Productions Trading Local – Saturday 8th October in Broadwalk Shopping Centre
Show of Strength Theatre Company present:
TRADING LOCAL — Theatre in shops
18 PLAYS IN 18 SHOPS – 54 FREE SHOWS IN BROADWALK SHOPPING CENTRE, KNOWLE
“an extraordinary promenade… unfolding like a treasure hunt” — VENUE
Recent Productions Recycled Stockings – A Family Christmas Show with The Southville Centre
Show of Strength Theatre Company and The Southville Centre
presents RECYCLED STOCKINGS : A New Christmas Show for Families.
All tickets only £5
At The Southville Centre
Tuesday – Thursday, 20-22 December 2011, 10.30am and 2.00pm…
Recent Productions MISS BRISTOL’S VICTORIAN FOLLIES
Saturday 18 June, 2pm, 3.30pm and 5pm
Part of M Shed opening weekend
Come and meet three extraordinary women in some very unusual, and highly appropriate, locations!
Recent Productions Why don't we do it in the road? 2011
BACK AGAIN FOR 2011
Why don’t we do it in the road? — love, sex and violence on the streets of Bedminster
Venue ★★★★ review – 24 Sept ’10, Issue 928
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this is Bristol ★★★★ review – 24 May ’11
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A regular Sunday event throughout the summer from April 24th to September 25th 2011 plus bank holidays but no shows in August.
Recent Productions 'Celebration' Exeter University 6th and 7th November 2010
Taking ‘Celebration’ to Exeter University as part of the EXEtreme festival. A chance to see highlights from Celebration.
Recent Productions Why don't we do it in the road? 2010
Back by popular demand
Why don’t we do it in the road? — love, sex and violence on the streets of Bedminster
In autumn 2009 we previewed a new outdoor show and it was so successful we’re making it a regular Sunday event throughout the autumn from September 19th to October 24th 2010.
Venue ★★★★ review – 24 Sept ’10, Issue 928
Recent Productions TRADING LOCAL – THEATRE IN SHOPS, STAPLE HILL
Show of Strength Theatre Company in association with
Staple Hill Regeneration Partnership, Taste Food Festival and local traders present:
TRADING LOCAL – THEATRE IN SHOPS, STAPLE HILL
SATURDAY 2ND OCTOBER
18 plays in 19 shops — 10am – 4.30pm
Recent Productions BACK TO THE TOBACCO FACTORY
The venue we started in 1998 and where we performed till 2003
Bristol Festival of Ideas in association with Show of Strength and the Tobacco Factory Theatre:
Thursday 27 May 2010, 19.30-21.00
Antonia Fraser and Ian Rickson on Harold Pinter
Recent Productions TRADING LOCAL – THEATRE IN SHOPS, BRISLINGTON
Show of Strength Theatre Company in association with Brislington Community Partnership present:
TRADING LOCAL – THEATRE IN SHOPS, BRISLINGTON
SATURDAY 8TH MAY
18 new plays in 18 shops, 54 free shows 10am — 4.30pm
Recent Productions TRADING LOCAL – THEATRE IN SHOPS, WESTBURY ON TRYM
Show of Strength Theatre Company in partnership with
The Westbury On Trym Society present:
TRADING LOCAL – THEATRE IN SHOPS, WESTBURY ON TRYM
SATURDAY 24TH APRIL
54 new shows in 18 shops — 10am – 4.30pm
Past Productions Gripping Yarns: free performances in Exeter
Gripping Yarns
Sat 12 & Sun 13 May, 10.30am-4.30pm
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Queen St, Exeter EX4 3RX
This weekend Show of Strength bring objects in Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum to life and showcase writing by local people.
Watch a series of 12 five-minute monologues performed in the museum’s galleries, close to the objects which inspired them. All the monologues were written and developed in a series of workshops run by Show of Strength in March and April this year. Join us on Saturday and Sunday and prepare to see museum objects in a completely new light.
Download a performance schedule here
Gripping Yarns is a partnership project with RAMM, Exeter Northcott Theatre and Show of Strength and has been funded by Renaissance.
Past Productions TRADING LOCAL - EXETER
TRADING LOCAL is 12 new pieces from 12 writers in 12 shops on Sidwell St, Exeter. Some writers are experienced, for some this is the first time they have written for theatre…
Past Productions Perfectly Frank
Inspired by the 1809 opening ceremony and party enjoyed by the Irish builders and Bristol citizens, the Friends of the Avon New Cut (Franc) clebrated the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Cut.
MAY 4th 2009 by Brunel’s SS Great Britain
The Cut was dug by Irish and other travelling labourers or “navvies” and Show of Strength joined FRANC to present
PERFECTLY FRANK the man that dug the cut.
Past Productions TRADE IT?
Sandi Toksvig – ‘acidly funny piece’
Mustapha Matura – ‘potent evocation of the complexities of the fight for freedom and equality.’
THE TIMES.
DON’T MISS…‘theatre with a difference which has a great deal to say for itself.’
BRISTOL EVENING POST
Past Productions TRADE IT? The writers
Edson Burton
Madge Dresser, Sheila Hannon
Lucy Heywood, Catherine Johnson, Sandi Toksvig, Jenny Davis, Suzanne Worrica
Mustapha Matura, Rob Mitchell
Catherine Johnson and Sandi Toksvig
Photos: Zuleika Henry
Past Productions 2008: TRADE IT?
TRADE IT?
REVIEWS
The Times ***
Bristol Evening Post 8/10
The Guardian ****
Past Productions An Audience with Sarah Guppy
Commissioned by Brunel 200 and touring in 2008, AN AUDIENCE WITH SARAH GUPPY, a new play by Sheila Hannon about an amazing inventor and designer. Kim Hicks plays the remakable woman who also taught IK Brunel more than a thing or two about suspension bridges.
Past Productions Hen and Chicken celebrates 18 years of Pub Theatre
In October 1989 Show of Strength (SOS) opened it’s first season at the Hen and Chicken, North Street, creating pub theatre in Bedminster.
In early autumn 2007 the pub opened under new management (black sheep bars ltd who also run the Alma Tavern) and in October 2007 SOS celebrated its 18th ‘pub theatre’ birthday by performing An Audience with Sarah Guppy by Sheila Hannon, the one woman show with Kim Hicks who also performed in that very first season!
Past Productions The Naked Truth
John Christopher Wood, Edinburgh Fringe award winner, Venue hack and author of cult comedy classic ‘Elsie and Norm’s Macbeth’
Past Productions Brunel's Platform Theatre
3rd – 13th October 2006
Theatre on Railway Stations across the South West which called at
Bristol Temple Meads, Cheltenham Spa, Plymouth, Bath Spa, Gloucester and Newton Abbot.
Past Productions Incle and Yarico by John Thelwall
In January 2007 SOS staged a rehearsed reading of John Thelwall’s unperformed and recently discovered anti slavery musical INCLE AND YARICO (1787).
Past Productions The Wills Girls
The Wills’ Girls played to sell out audiences in 2002 and it was so successful we revived it in 2003 to further acclaim. The Tobacco Factory hosted a play about the women that worked there in the 1950’s.
Past Productions Productions archive
Chronological list of Show of Stength productions since 1986.