Current Productions Celebration - Saturday 10 April and Sunday 11 April
SHOW OF STRENGTH & TRAVELLING LIGHT Theatre Companies join forces for the first time on a brand new festival of shows for young people and families (from 8 years) at The Create Centre, Hotwells, Bristol.
From 10am-5pm brand new short plays will be happening all over the building. Over a dozen writers have created work especially for the event. Audiences will get a map showing the performances, and can choose what to see when. And the Create Centre café will be open throughout.
Tickets just £6 for a whole day’s entertainment, or £20 for a group of 4 (must include at least one under-16). Tickets on the door from the Create Centre.
Current 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 summer. Watch this space for dates, times and prices.
Current Productions TRADING LOCAL - The Company
The company formed for TRADING LOCAL naturally employed local professionals. Bristol Old Vic trained Ed Viney directs local actors; Angie Belcher, Sarah Buckland, Kim Hicks, Kate McNab, Oliver Millingham and Chris Yapp.
Recent 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…
Recent Productions Why don't we do it in the road?
- Love, Sex & Violence on the Streets of Bedminster –
PREVIEWS 3pm 18 & 25 October & 1 November 2009
Our new show is a theatrical walk with some of the most extraordinary people – and animals – you’ll ever meet. And every word is true.
Recent 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.
Recent Productions SOS AND SANDI TOKSVIG: DINNER AND A PRIVATE PERFORMANCE
In a major coup for theatre and comedy fans, Show Of Strength persuaded broadcaster, actor and writer Sandi Toksvig created and performed a tribute to two of England’s greatest heroes.
ENGLAND, SHAKESPEARE & ST GEORGE
previewed at Holland House Hotel on Wednesday 22 April with a champagne reception and slap-up dinner
Recent Productions TRADING LOCAL - THE DVD
Shoppers in Bedminster on Saturday 21st February got more than they bargained for. Show Of Strength working in partnership with The Southville Centre put live performances in 19 shops. Richard Clutterbuck has produced a DVD of edited highlights and Vox Pox which was shown at the Southville Centre together with an exhibition of photos of the event, as part of the Southbank Arts Trail.
See BBC WEBSITE
Recent 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
Recent Productions 2008: TRADE IT?
TRADE IT?
REVIEWS
The Times ***
Bristol Evening Post 8/10
The Guardian ****
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 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.