Bristol’s legendary, bold, endlessly inventive and genre-defying theatre company, Action Hero (The Talent, Oh Europa, Watch Me Fall) return with something brand new: Lost inside a recurring nightmare, a reluctant actor returns to the stage after 8 years to conquer his stage fright and banish his ghosts, but he’s not gonna make a big song and dance about it…
Action Hero are definitely not making a scene.
Lost inside a recurring nightmare, a reluctant actor returns to the stage. In an attempt to conquer an 8-year period of intense stage fright – and inside a dream-world inhabited by the phantoms of his disapproving ancestors – he is replaying his own autobiography and starting to lose the plot. But he’s not gonna make a big song and dance about it. Instead, he’s determined to keep the show on the road, re-writing his anxiety dreams live on stage in the hope of banishing the ghosts of performances past. A Song & Dance is an absurdist nightmare of a performance about masking, performing and ‘acting the part’.
“Thrillingly funny and strange… Beckett’s hip, pop-culture savvy descendants.”
Time Out London on previous work, The Talent
“I have never seen a show from these artists that didn’t make you sit up a little straighter and want to peer a little more closely.”
Lyn Gardner, Stagedoor
Action Hero create artworks that explore what is it to be human now. From stage to page to audio to immersive interaction, Action Hero create structures for people to experience alternative ways of being together. Previous projects have toured to more than 40 countries across 6 continents, to both critical and popular acclaim. They have been shortlisted for the Live Art Prize, a Total Theatre award, and won an Off West End award for Best Performance, and a Critics Table award for Best Touring Show. They were recently longlisted for the 2025 Artangel Open.
