Worklight Theatre's Joe Sellman-Leava chats about It's The Economy, Stupid

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 ...

A superbly crafted study of contradiction and prejudice, confronting us all with uncomfortable truths.

A show that offers the everyman’s view on feminism but doesn’t offer anything of considerable worth to the discussion.