Tom Wainwright is among the cast of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, which opens at the Bristol Old Vic on Saturday, July 13.

During Mayfest this year, Tom (below, second from left, with The Boy Who Cried Wolf cast) dressed as a beaver and played a cow at a solo show, Buttercup, at the Wardrobe Theatre last year.

But Tom is not solely known for playing animals on stages across Bristol; he also has the ignominious distinction of editing the final issue of Venue magazine before it closed.

Here are Tom’s top-five Bristol favourites:

The Beaufort
“Rumour has it this Montpelier pub is closing down. I don’t know if it’s true. I do know that I love this pub. I’m by no means a regular – otherwise I’d have a clearer idea of its fate – but over the years I’ve had many a good night there. It’s tiny. It doesn’t do food. The beer’s not very good. It’s brightly lit. It’s the best pub in Bristol.”

Oldbury Court
“From my front door in Easton you can walk through Eastville Park out the other end, through Snuff Mills and under an hour later you’re in Oldbury Court. You often see kingfishers and along the riverbank a population of elm trees are thriving, which from my anorak perspective is very exciting.”

Gardiner Haskins (below)
“A time warp. They sell everything. A family-owned department store in the middle of town with a vast car park. If they sold the land their business is on they would surely be millionaires many times over (perhaps they already are) but instead this unfeasible blast from the past sits there refusing to budge and I love it. I also buy stuff from there.”

The Invisible Circus
“By their nature a mobile unit but Bristol can fairly call them its own. After a night at Carny Ville everything feels desperately tame. Actually rock and roll. I’m so painfully not. If Doug Francis had run for mayor, I’d have voted for him.”

The Severn Beach branch line
“The train line that runs between Temple Meads and Severn Beach is a massive enabler and liberator for so many people on low incomes (particularly young mothers). In term time it’s packed with kids on their way to school. If it wasn’t for the small army of petitioners that gather signatures every few years or so when the line is threatened with closure we’d be robbed of a vital piece of Bristol infrastructure. Long may they and it continue.”