Funny Money – 11 February 2020, Sheffield Library Theatre Review by Claire Chapman. “Featuring superb comic timing and direction throughout, thanks to first time full-length production director Marcus Newman, and natural performances from the entire cast, Funny Money provides an excellent lesson in not just how to dig yourself into a hole, but a Guinness […]
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‘Allo ‘Allo – 12 February 2019, Sheffield Library Theatre ***** A combination of growing up in the 1980s golden age of Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft sitcoms and another theatre reviewer recently telling me that a production of ‘Allo ‘Allo was the funniest theatre show they have ever seen meant I was very excited to be […]
Ben Hur – 16 October 2018, Sheffield Library Theatre ***** When a theatre company promises to bring the greatest book ever penned to life on stage with a towering team of just four actors, and complete with a bona fide chariot race, with real chariots, an authentic sea battle, with real water, and a decadent […]
A Bunch of Amateurs – 15 May 2018, Sheffield Library Theatre ***** After being in an audience with Ian Hislop last year, I was intrigued to see how his comedy and writing, in partnership with Nick Newman, would work as a play brought to life on stage by Sheffield’s Tudor Players. Adapted from the 2008 […]
The Flint Street Nativity – 13 February 2018, Library Theatre, Sheffield All good things come in twos, which is why for the second time in six days in February I was delighted to find myself in the audience for a comedy production about a nativity play, this time for The Tudor Players production of The […]