‘My name is Lewis. Stephen Lewis,’ says the man in a tux on stage. After performing the famous strut and pose of James Bond firing his gun down the barrel of the camera, the audience is fired up with a quick popularity contest of which actor was the best at the iconic British spy. In the end, it’s a shout-off between Connery and Craig, with the Scotsman pulling through.

Cyril Blake’s one-man show comes hot from Edinburgh, playing a guy struggling between the 1960s ‘masculinity’ of his father and the twenty-first century ideals of what being a man now represents. 

Lewis’ story is that of a grandson of a Yorkshire coalminer, a son of a mechanic – who had no interest in being either, finding a vocation instead in performing. There was little in common between father and son, except for the love of Bond films, so the story of Lewis’ growth is told in terms of Bond’s evolving character and revolving actors.