“But I don’t want to be a wrestler!” says Gruff Dryll: “I’m a super-serious gayboy poet: I care about truth, and wrestling is all fake and SUPER-heterosexual.”
Rezi slaps him, and furrows her butch brow: “But you’ve got to. This is our chance to stand out, get respected… and do loads and loads of sexy glam violence obviously.”
‘Babyface’ is the rags-to-spandex story of two tender queer souls climbing the ranks of an industry where selling your persona is everything. Fusing musical theatre and pro-wrestling (yes, with ACTUAL wrestling in an ACTUAL ring!) it’s a laugh-out-loud thrill ride that asks: in a polarised world, what happens when your need for community conflicts with your urge to WIN?
Blood, sweat, tears and glitter will fly!
A ‘WORK-IN-PROGRESS’ PERFORMANCE
11 FEBRUARY 2026 AT CHESTER STORYHOUSE
SOLD OUT
A ‘WORK-IN-PROGRESS’ PERFORMANCE
13 FEBRUARY 2026 AT PLEASANCE, LONDON
SOLD OUT
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Seiriol Davies
Seiriol Davies is a writer, composer and performer from Anglesey. Seiriol has written shows including How to Win Against History (Edinburgh Fringe, Bristol Old Vic), Milky Peaks (Theatr Clwyd and touring), Betty! A Sort of Musical with Maxine Peake (Manchester Royal Exchange) and Branwen: Dadeni for the Donald Gordon Theatre, Wales Millennium Centre (as co-writer). They have also created work with companies such as Punchdrunk, English National Opera, The Gate Theatre, Underbling & Vow, The Unicorn Theatre and Le Gateau Chocolat. Seiriol is currently developing a queer medieval Shakespearian epic about Henry the Fifth and Welsh folk hero Owain Glyndwr, entitled Sweet Henry Vee with the Birmingham Rep, Charles Actual Dickens and the Death Ship of Gold with Francesca Moody Productions and a musical with Hijinx.
Their show How to Win Against History received widespread critical acclaim:
★★★★★
‘A work of genius’
The Daily Telegraph
‘Sparkling piece of musical theatre’
The Times
★★★★
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