Full Monty, The

In 1997, a BAFTA award winning film about six out of work Sheffield steelworkers with nothing to lose took the world by storm. Read more …

And now they’e back, live on stage, only this time, for them, it really has to be…The Full Monty.

Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar winning writer of the film, has now gone back to Sheffield to where it all started to rediscover the men, the women, the heartache and the hilarity of a city on the dole.

Featuring songs from the film by Donna Summer, Hot Chocolate and Tom Jones, The Full Monty is brought to the stage by award winning director Daniel Evans and stars Sidney Cole, Kenny Doughty, Craig Gazey, Roger Morlidge, Kieran O’Brien, Simon Rouse with Scott Anson, Tracy Brabin, Caroline Carver, Eamonn Fleming, Elaine Glover, Rachel Lumberg and Ian Mercer.

This Sheffield Theatres production is presented by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers the multi award-winning producers of Art, Brief Encounter and Calendar Girls.

The critical consensus

Evans makes it enjoyably fresh in the appealing casting of a set of perfectly normal blokes; there’s not an Adonis among them.

Mark Shenton, The Stage, 19/02/2013

This is a show with a heart the size of Sheffield. It's a total blast.

(*) Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 19/02/2013

Prudes need not apply within. Every inch a whopping hit, I’d say.

(*) Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 19/02/2013

Chuffing brilliant.

Jonathan Brown, The Independent, 19/02/2013

The story is more than a group of men becoming strippers; it is a journey of vigour and emancipation out of oppression; both financially and personally.

(*) Ruth Kilner, WhatsOnStage.com, 20/02/2013

Even as I cheered along with everyone else, though, tears coursed my cheeks. So many years on, society is still chucking people on the scrapheap. Is the play as "feelgood" as the film? Certainly. But, as well as that, it made this audience member "feelfurious".

Clare Brennan, The Observer, 24/02/2013

Viewed on stage now, it comes across as an irresistibly comic, state of the nation chronicle of an irreversible social and cultural shift in society.

Alan Chadwick, STV, 26/03/2013

This is a quieter story than the hit 1997 film that spawned it and the American musical of the same name. In part because the first act of the production is light on the upbeat music that made the film a feel-good hit. It isn’t until the second act that the play really hits its stride and gains rhythm, momentum and a cracking soundtrack.

Josie Balfour, The Scotsman, 27/03/2013

Daniel Evans’ production is a funny, and entertaining look at post-Thatcherite Sheffield and the bold and somewhat creative endeavours of the working class.

(*) Emma Hay, TVBomb, 29/03/2013

A jolly good romp.

(*) Alex Eades, Edinburgh Guide, 29/03/2013

A show that – if it’s not great theatre – is still big, heartfelt and significant, and brilliantly well done.

(*) Joyce McMillan, 28/03/2013