Join Show of Strength Theatre Company for lashings of BLOOD, BLACKBEARD AND BUCCANEERS in Bristol docks.
Winner of Bristol 24/7's BEST OF BRISTOL THEATRE 2018:
"Combining Sheila Hannon’s excellent research with Gerard Cooke’s charismatic delivery and characterisation, Blood, Booze and Buccaneers took us on a journey into the seventeenth century. This was immersive and participatory theatre of the most natural kind" - Bristol 24/7
"It’s almost as if actor Gerard Cooke was born to play the role of Pirate Storyteller" - The Millennial Runaway
"Highly recommend this glorious thing, 2 hours, 4 pubs, tall tales, what’s not to like?!” — Kathryn Davis, Head of Tourism, Visit Bristol
Edward Teach – aka Blackbeard – was the world’s most famous pirate. And until his violent death in battle 300 years ago he was also the most feared. Teach is said to have been born in Bristol but no records survive. Now new research in Jamaica has proved his family’s West Country origins – and the Blackbeard emerging from the shadows couldn’t be more different from your average, rum soaked TREASURE ISLAND pirate.
Walk in Blackbeard’s footsteps in Bristol docks, and by the end of the tour you’ll be able to separate the fact from the fiction, with a bit of help from Ted, the Bristol parrot.
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Full details at: www.showofstrength.org.uk
THIS CLIP: Gerard Cooke and Kirris Riviere discuss Show of Strength's BLOOD, BLACKBEARD AND BUCCANEERS with Made in Bristol TV's Jamie Lowe (interview date: 16/07/2018).
LINKS / MEDIA
- Article - Last orders for Bristol pub linked to Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island - The Guardian 21.04.2019
- Article - Bristol should be fighting to save the Llandoger Trow - Bristol 24/7 17.04/2019
- Article - A hero for our times - why Bristol should have a statue to Blackbeard - Bristol Post 29.12.2019
- Award - Best of Bristol 2018: Theatre - Bristol 24/7 - 17.12.2019
- Article & Review - Pirate Tales: What's behind the racy stories of adventure on the high seas? - South Bristol Voice - September 2018
- Review - Blood, Booze & Buccaneers – Bristol Walking Tour - Backpack Becki 19.08.2018
- Review - Swashbuckling Tales of Bristol's Harbourside - The Millennial Runaway 09.08.2018
- Review - Blood, Booze and Buccaneers - Bristol 24/7 03.08.2018
- Preview - How Bristol is marking 300 years since the death of its most famous son - Bristol Post 19.07.2018
- Article - 15 things you probably didn't know about Blackbeard - Bristol 24/7 10.07.2018
- Preview - Blood, Booze and Buccaneers - Destination Bristol
- Preview - Blood, Booze and Buccaneers - Bristol 24/7
- TICKETS - Blood, Booze and Buccaneers - StageStubs.com
