Productions
On this page you will find information about current productions; What we’ve got planned for the future and everything we’ve done in the past.
In Development 2008: SOS and Travelling Light: Short Sharp Shots
Travelling Light Theatre Company and Show of Strength selected 25 young people to take part in the SHORT SHARP SHOTS Young Writers’ project.
Recent 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
Recent Productions 2008: TRADE IT?
TRADE IT?
REVIEWS
The Times ***
Bristol Evening Post 8/10
The Guardian ****
Recent 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.