Tag: theatre

Number, Please – 10 July 2019, The Local Theatre, Sheffield With less than a month to go to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe we were delighted to send one of our new reviewers Melanie Hopkins to review a preview show of farcical comedy and 1950s spy film satire in Sheffield before it heads up to Edinburgh […]

Life of Pi – 3 July 2019, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield ***** We were delighted to be in the audience for the press night of Sheffield Theatres latest exciting production, their adaption of Yann Martel’s Man Booker Prize winning novel Life of Pi. This new theatrical adaptation, adapted from the novel by Lolita Chakrabarti, brings to […]

Cheshire Cats – 14 May 2019, Sheffield Library Theatre Any production that promises to be a cross between a girls’ night out and a real mission to support a cause close to many hearts, with plenty of laughs and a few tears along the way is worth checking out, especially as went enter fun run […]

Cold War – 8 to 11 May 2019, Local Theatre, Sheffield A busy week in theatre meant that we did not think we would be able to take up the opportunity to review Doppelgangster’s part gig, part theatre, part political intervention, Cold War at Sheffield’s newest performance space, until our newest reviewer Melanie Hopkins stepped […]

Anatomy of Gray – 1 May 2019, Sheffield University Drama Studio ***** Coming of age stories are something I usually associate with film and literature rather than the stage, so when Sheffield University Theatre Company invited me to the opening night of their final production of this semester, which promised to be a unique coming […]