SUTCo’s The Importance of Being Earnest – 20 November 2024, Library Theatre Review by Claire Taranaski. Last night SUTCo confirmed their place as one of Sheffield’s finest student theatre companies with a production and performances all that would make Oscar Wilde proud and if you didn’t know differently would make Continue Reading
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Rott£n – 8 November 2024, Sheffield University Drama Studio
Rott£n – 8 November 2024, Sheffield University Drama Studio Review by Peter Taranaski. “Rott£n”, a new play by Josie White, directed by Rikki Beadle Blair, is a play that tells us that outward appearances can be deceiving. It opens with three women Saoirse (Nicole Taggart), Coco (Narisha Lawson), and Sonia Continue Reading
SUTCo’s Your Heart’s To Open, Close It – 30 October 2024, Sheffield University Drama Studio
SUTCo’s Your Heart’s To Open, Close It – 30 October 2024, Sheffield University Drama Studio Review by Taylor J. Director and writer Ambrose Robinson comically encapsulates the heart-breaking hero’s journey of our lovable yet flawed, anxiously attached, golden retriever, ‘Pup’ (played by Matthew Heppell), as he unconditional love, and accountability Continue Reading
The Enfield Poltergeist – 28 October, Lantern Theatre, Sheffield
The Enfield Poltergeist – 28 October, Lantern Theatre, Sheffield Review by Peter Taranaski (Folk Phenomena). Nestled within the leafy suburb of Sharrow (in Sheffield) we see the Lantern Theatre in the distance.The Lantern Theatre is a cosy place with old architecture; an intimate venue perfect for seeing a play from Continue Reading
Tudor Players’ Blackadder II – 15 October 2024, Library Theatre
Tudor Players’ Blackadder II – 15 October 2024, Library Theatre Tudor Players cunning plan to perform three episodes of Blackadder II on a cold dark October evening was a side-splitting success bringing the creation of Richard Curtis and Ben Elton to life and satisfying the itch of fans of the Continue Reading
Midland Players’ Treasure Island – 25 September 2024, University Drama Studio
Midland Players’ Treasure Island – 25 September 2024, University Drama Studio Review by Claire Taranaski. Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel is a pirate adventure book that we all feel we should have read when we were younger but many like me did not or will have heard of the pirate Continue Reading