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 be an epic fantastic on […]

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 and He, who find that […]

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 – and it’s perfectly intimate for […]

Midland Players’ Spygame – 28 January 2022, University of Sheffield Drama Studio Review by Melanie Hopkins. This comedy-mystery comprising of a seven person cast, by Bettine Mantelow, had high ambitions for a very psychological yet hilarious piece of theatre, did it meet the expectations? I think so. Spygame: Five randomly selected contestants are brought to […]

Midland Players’ What’s Love Got to Do With It? – 17 September 2021, Crookes Social Club Review by Artisan Friendly. How fantastic it is to see live performance again and at a great venue! The Crookes Social Club is set out in cabaret style tonight in preparation for ‘What’s Love Got To Do With it?’  […]

Frankenstein – 19 February 2020, Sheffield University Drama Studio Review by Artisan Friendly. “Directed by Sam Islam, the action of Frankenstein takes place in the study of the Victor Frankenstein on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland in the late 19th Century. Using a spare colour palate, the lighting casted a sickly green/yellow hue throughout […]