Midland Players’ Much Ado About Nothing – 24 September 2025, University Drama Studio Review by Paula Turner. Shakespeare plays always start out with the difficulty of audiences’ prior expectations, from studying texts at school to seeing cinema versions. But Much Ado About Nothing’s will-they-won’t they frenemies to lovers can still Continue Reading
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Midland Players’ Men At Arms – 19 February 2025, University Drama Studio
Midland Players’ Men At Arms – 19 February 2025, University Drama Studio Review by Peter Taranaski. It’s a quiet sort of evening as we make our way to the University of Sheffield Drama Studio. The quietness of the evening is about to be punctured by the kind of raucous, off-beat, 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
Midland Players’ Guards! Guards! – Sheffield University Drama Studio, 15 February 2024
Midland Players’ Guards! Guards! – Sheffield University Drama Studio, 15 February 2024 Review by Jacob Bush.Midland Players, never one to avoid a challenge, have chosen to stage Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! as their spring production this year. The company have done a good job at bringing to life what could Continue Reading
Midland Players’ Stage Kiss – 22 September 2023, Sheffield University Drama Studio
Midland Players’ Stage Kiss – 22 September 2023, Sheffield University Drama Studio Review by Jacob Bush. This week, on a bustling campus celebrating freshers week, Midland Players are performing Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl at Sheffield University Drama Studio. The play follows two unnamed actors, who simply go by She Continue Reading
Midland Players’ Blithe Spirit – 21 September 2022, University of Sheffield Drama Studio
Midland Players’ Blithe Spirit – 21 September 2022, University of Sheffield Drama Studio Review by Jacob Bush. Blithe Spirit has been a staple of British theatre for decades and now Midlands Players bring it to the University of Sheffield Drama Studio. A lovely space – a converted old church – Continue Reading