Muscle

Muscle, love us or loathe us, men are everywhere.

We have the habit of popping up, often unexpectedly, in your beds, wombs, wars, worst nightmares and fondest memories.

We come, for better or for worse, in guises as disparate as grandfather and son, priest and lover, soldier and doctor yet apparently we all hail from Mars!

No wonder being a man is problematic; its dangerous, pressured, ridiculous, often funny and sometimes tragic, but it’s also capable of being something beautiful.

Muscle is a richly textured, emotional rollercoaster of theatre, dance, music and documentary inspired by extraordinary interviews with men and performed by an eclectic all male cast who will also be playing all the characters from Venus.

"An interesting - and important - piece of theatre"
Fest
Original Review

“Impressively beautiful”
Fringe Review
Original Review

"A powerful production"
Broadway Baby
Original Review

'Swaggeringly, gleefully funny, and achingly sad'
Mary Brennan, The Herald

“Five men - using their bodies in feisty choreographies when words need added sweat and sinew”
Mary Brennan, The Herald

“a poignant journey through the pitfalls of masculinity”
The Shimmy Skinny
Original Review

“An excellent look into the lives of men.”
The Shimmy Skinny
Original Review

'intelligent, beautiful and very personal'
Scotsgay
Original Review

'beautiful as poetry in motion'
Scotsgay
Original Review

“Articulate, profound and sensitive. We move through elegant, overwhelmingly beautiful reflections on what makes a man a man in today's society"
Theatre in Wales

“An inspiring, entertaining and imaginative piece of modern theatre'
Big Issue

“Richly delivered monologues, cleverly presented semi-acted dialogue and beautiful choreography”
Western Mail

“An invigorating, moving experience”
Theatre Royal Sratford East

"Enhancing and engrossing. The committed team of actors and dancers bring the dramatic stories to life with impact and gut feeling”
National Dance Company of Wales

"Muscle effortlessly weaves together personal snapshots of love, rejection, resentment and redemption into a tapestry of stories that pays tribute to the experience of being a man"
Guardian

“I could feel my stomach muscles tightening as he highlighted some of the terrifying moments of his tough struggle through life.My stomach muscles also rippled with huge laughter at Hugh Thomas' story of prepubescent children's first sexual 'experience'”
Theatre of Wales

“The comedy is rich and genuinely funny, the stories are poignant without being steeped in needless caricature, sentimentality and political correctness"
Western Mail

"Greg Cullen’s writing balances humour with stories of great pathos and beauty"
Western Mail