Event Details
- From: 07/11/2025
- To: 15/11/2025
- Starting at: 07:45 PM
Matinee: 08/11/2025- Starting at: 02:30 PM
Address
- Main Auditorium
- North Street, Bromley, BR1 1SB
The Full Monty
By Simon Beaufoy, adapted from the original screen play.
Directed by Pauline Armour
An amateur production by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd
In 1997, a BAFTA award-winning British film about six out of work Sheffield steelworkers with nothing to lose took the world by storm. And now they’re back, live on stage at Bromley Little Theatre, only for them it really has to be The Full Monty.
Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar–winning writer of the film, has thoughtfully restructured his screenplay to better suit the stage and has rediscovered the men, the women, the heartache and hilarity of a city on the dole.
Set in the ‘Thatcherite Eighties’ where unemployment has emasculated so many skilled workers, six men, endearingly undeterred by their combination of imperfect bodies, advanced ages and lack of dance ability, set out to overcome their limitations and give Sheffield a more daring show than their smooth American counterparts, by going for the ‘Full Monty’. We are happily taken with them on their journey as they turn from a bunch of two-left-footed men to a group of friends learning more about themselves, their relationships, and thongs.
Keeping true to the original film, the play uses some well-recognised songs, including the iconic Donna Summer hit, Hot Stuff, in the famous job centre queue scene and Hot Chocolate’s You Sexy Thing, and for the grand finale Tom Jones’ iconic hit, You Can Keep Your Hat On.
Brilliant …..hilarious ………risque …….poignant ………slick ……….fun ……..sexy …….. moving !!
If ever a show had ‘big hit’ written all over it then it is this wonderfully entertaining and deeply touching stage version of the successful British film ‘The Full Monty’
…the whole show goes off like a rocket, not least in the climactic scene, in which these brave, awkward and desperate men do the Full Monty to the uproarious delight of the audience… Charles Spencer for The Telegraph
Simon Beaufoy’s stage version of his much-loved 1997 film now gyrates onto the stage and looks destined to be as wildly popular as the celluloid original… Paul Taylor for The Independent
Strikes a balance between pants-down raucousness and buttoned-up restraint, which allows the characters and relationships to develop appealingly Henry Hitchings for The Evening Standard
Cast
Other roles are played by members of the company