Show Of Strength’s award winning 5* Theatre Walks explore fascinating characters, places and stories and are led by experienced professional performers. All are available for private bookings. Currently 5 to choose from with several new ones planned for autumn/winter 2021, so keep an eye on the website and social media.
Blood and Butchery in Bedminster
https://showofstrength.org.uk/productions/blood-and-butchery-in-bedminste
Bedminster is older than Bristol and you’ll visit extraordinary, forgotten places where amazing things happened. Grave robbers and body snatchers, concrete coffins and hanging judges – and the missing millions from Britain’s biggest robbery, laundered right here. You’ll see places and people you didn’t know existed, with plenty of laughs along the way, and by the end of the evening Bedminster will never seem the same again.
Meet/start outside The Ropewalk near Bedminster Bridge. Ends on North Street.
Tour lasts approx. 1.5 hours. Easy walking on the flat, distance 1-1.5 miles.
‘the best walking tour I’ve ever done’ - @WeirdBristol on Twitter
‘uncanny and macabre, cracking script, consummate performer’ - Bristol Life Mag
Blood, Blackbeard and Buccaneers
https://showofstrength.org.uk/productions/blood-booze-and-buccaneers
Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard, was born in Bristol in the 1680s. Probably. Only there are no records to prove it. Now new research supports what Bristol has always believed – with some remarkable details. The real Blackbeard couldn’t have been more different from your average, rum soaked TREASURE ISLAND pirate. His legendary brutality was probably self invented - fake news to terrorise his enemies into surrender. Visiting dockside haunts and spyholes and revealing the truth at last, BLOOD, BLACKBEARD AND BUCCANEERS will change your view of pirates forever. With a fact checking parrot and the worst pirate jokes you’ll ever hear. Pirate dress encouraged.
Meet/start near the harbour. Ends near the Centre.
Tour lasts approx. 1.5 hours. Easy walking on the flat, distance 1-1.5 miles.
“Highly recommend this glorious thing” Kathryn Davis, Director of Tourism, Visit West
“excellent research... charismatic delivery...comedy... with a little vicarious thrill of terror" – Bristol24/7
Crime and Crinolines in Clifton
https://showofstrength.org.uk/productions/crime-and-crinolines-in-clifton
Clifton is ‘the handsomest suburb in Europe,’ said poet John Betjeman – and the people who lived behind the elegant facades are no less remarkable. Discover fabulous buildings, scenery and stories: a jilted barmaid’s brush with death; a runaway Empress; the only forger sentenced to death to keep his head and have it on a banknote; and the Georgian terrace that housed the Holy Grail. Starting and ending in the village, Clifton will never look the same again.
Tour lasts approx. 1.5 hours. Easy walking on the flat, distance 1-1.5 miles.
‘Consistently and magnificently superb. A joyful celebration. I loved every moment.’ - @WeirdBristol on Twitter
Frankenstein in Bath
https://showofstrength.org.uk/productions/frankenstein-in-bath
One of Bath’s best kept secrets: most of Frankenstein was written in Bath. Follow in the footsteps of its creator, Mary Shelley, whose life was every bit as gothic as the story she told. A true story of secrets and lies, suicides, concealed births, ruined reputations, and false identities. Mary Shelley arrived in Bath in 1816 with three secrets she was desperate to keep. Five months later she left with two even darker secrets – and the world’s first science fiction novel. See where she lived and wrote; where her step-sister gave birth to Lord Byron’s illegitimate child; where she hid her secrets and why they stayed hidden for 200 years.
Starts near Bath Abbey; ends at the new Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein.
Tour lasts approx. 1.5 hours. Easy walking on the flat, distance 1-1.5 miles.
‘more genuine Gothic horror that her novel… enthralling’ -Theatre Bath
‘fascinating… I was spellbound… very good value’ – Trip Advisor 5*
‘Eastenders with posh people and poetry’ – audience member
Treasure Island Story Walk
https://showofstrength.org.uk/productions/treasure-island
A rip-roaring tale for all the family with buried treasure, hidden booty, some of the most infamous pirates ever to sail the seven seas – and a chance to learn some of Bristol’s hidden pirate history. Discover where Long John Silver ran his pub, The Spyglass. Find out where Squire Trelawney found and fitted out the good ship Hispaniola and where a young Jim Hawkins stepped off the coach from Devon to embark on his biggest ever adventure…his search for Captain Flint’s buried treasure. A story packed full of pirates and buccaneers, and lashings of doubloons, told right where the adventure began: Bristol docks. With Ted, the fact checking parrot and some terrible pirate jokes.”
Starts near the Centre; ends near M Shed
Tour lasts approx. 1 hour. Easy walking on the flat, distance 1 mile.
‘Perfect was to spend time with little pirates’ - Bristol Arts Monster
‘Wonderful entertainment, thrilling storytelling, thoroughly recommend’ – audience member.
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