Alma Tavern and Theatre, Bristol

Amelia Gann on Dreamworld

The Old Red Lion 20/ 21 March

inventive and expressive

Fun, yet thought-provoking

It’s the type of performance that you can get lost in.

Having not been seen for around a year Workshop UK’s Monster returns to Bristol’s Wardrobe Theatre. The play, both written and performed by Joe Sellman-Leava, explores topics relating to masculinity, violence and sexual abuse. We follow Joe through doubts over who he is and whether he needs to live up to or ignore challenging masculine stereotypes. When boiled down to the bones, the play is simply about Shakespeare, Patrick Stewart, Mike Tyson and the protagonist himself. Joe tells a personal ...

Good theatre is as addictive as a brightly-coloured packet full of E-numbers

An ambitious and historically vital multimedia play that deals with the micro and macro effects of being a gay man in 1954 and beyond.