Fresh from his success at the Edinburgh Festival, one-man performer Tristan Bernays is bringing his show The Bread and the Beer to the Bridport Arts Centre.
Described by one critic as a ‘one-man Jerusalem’, The Bread and The Beer is a thrilling one-man poem-come-ballad that collides the myths of ancient England with the pulsing heartbeat of modern Britain.
Over an action-packed 50 minutes, Bernays tells the tale of John Barleycorn – the wild-eyed, long-haired god of drink, dance and madness – as he reawakens after thousands of years of sleep beneath the stone and mortar of modern London.
A shadow of his former self, he awakes to find a grey and lifeless world filled with grey and lifeless people.
Perturbed by this lack of imagination and spontaneity, Barleycorn thinks it’s time those around him remember what it’s like to have a little fun.
Not content with intoxicating just the normal man and woman on the street, soon John ensures that even policemen are rioting and Royalty are rutting in this modern myth that attempts to understand the contradictions within the English identity.
Catch it on July 11.
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