Midland Players’ The Perfect Murder – 23 September 2026, University Of Sheffield Drama Studio Review by Paula Turner. One of the interesting things about being a theatre reviewer is that it means you see productions you normally wouldn’t have gone to. Like ‘The Perfect Murder’, based on a story by Continue Reading
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Midland Players’ Monstrous Regiment – 18 February 2026, University Drama Studio
Midland Players’ Monstrous Regiment – 18 February 2026, University Drama Studio Review by Jacob Bush. As is becoming an annual tradition, this week Midland Players are taking audiences on another trip to Terry Pratchett’s weird and wonderful Discworld. This year’s production is Stephen Briggs’ adaptation of Monstrous Regiment. Against a Continue Reading
Midland Players’ Much Ado About Nothing – 24 September 2025, University Drama Studio
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
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