Butter Side Up Theatre Company’s Thestival 2025 – 11 April 2025, Lantern Theatre, Sheffield Review by Artisan Friendly. Thestival is back and what a brilliant showcase it is for new and upcoming writing, theatre and performance. Since its beginnings in 2013, it’s now been reinvented into a multi-day celebration of musicals, comedy, drama and creative […]
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Totley Operatic and Dramatic Society’s Last Séance – 17 May 2024, St John’s Church Hall, Sheffield Review by Artisan Friendly. ‘Last Seance’ by Herb Hassler is a new play and playwright to me. It is introduced by debut director, Claire Richardson in the programme notes as a ‘journey into the absurd world of fake séances, […]
Alice Connolly Presents Drawing From Life – 30 March 2024, Theatre Deli Sheffield Review by Artisan Friendly. Devised by real life life model Alice Connolly, Drawing from Life is an extraordinary performance experience. It combines real time life drawing and audience participation with prerecorded internal dialogues whisking the onlooker off into a dual parallel world […]
Karma Leon’s Kabaret’s Mischief – 1 April 2022, Picture House Social Review by Artisan Friendly. For a raucous and riotous night of vivacious and varied entertainment there’s got to be no place better to go in town than Karma Leon Kabaret’s ‘Mischief’. Featuring performers from a number of disciplines (burlesque, magic, drag, song, stand-up), there […]
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?’ […]
Peter Pandemic: A 2020 Panto – Long Arms Writing Review by Artisan Friendly. A playful reinvention of panto (online). Full of frothy, silly, bubbly energy that bounces along like an inflatable beach ball”. Pantomime, by its very nature of being a theatrical entertainment which typically involves music, topical jokes, heroes, villains and slapstick comedy, usually […]