SHOW of Strength, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, is  “making an exhibition of itself,” with 40 years of posters, fliers, photos, films, recordings, programmes and more – and possibly a performance or two – in The Pit at Totterdown from 17th to 19th April.

The company started in 1986 with Double Vision, aboard MV Thekla on The Grove, recently arrived in Bristol and captained by Pamela Longfellow and Viv ‘Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band’ Stanshall. The Thekla is still there – and so are Show of Strength.

Starting in April, this year’s nine theatre walks are: Crime and Crinolines in Clifton, Cary Comes Home (about Cary Grant), Blood and Butchery in Bedminster, The Frankenstein Experience, in Bath, the Treasure Island Story Walk (around Bristol Docks), Blood, Blackbeard and Buccaneers [you may be starting to see a pattern here], Saints and Sinners in St George, Kings and Commoners in Kenysham and Magic and Mayhem in Medieval Bristol.