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Writer: Timberlake Wertenbaker Director: Matthew Lloyd Reviewer: Honour Bayes Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Line should to all intents and purposes be an engaging and enthralling drama. Based on the tempestuous relationship of a fiery and sexy woman and her infamous teacher, Edgar Degas, Line could have been a vibrant and passionate exploration of the master, pupil [...]

Writer: Richard Hurford Director: Ruth Carney Reviewer: Sarah Lyth How well do you know the city you live in? How do you know? I came to Sheffield a decade a ago not knowing that I would fall in love. Yes, I’ve had personal experiences of heart ache and heart break, but it was Richard Hurford’s [...]

Writer: Benji Reid, Peader Kirk, Ray Shell Reviewer: Helen Chapman  A one-man musical (or perhaps dance-ical) telling the story of a Wall Street alcoholic waiting for Satan to arrive – sound bizarre? Perhaps. But it works. Very well.  The Devil Has Quentin’s Heart combines storytelling, theatre and dance in a modern tragedy, based on the [...]

Writer – Gemma Head Director – Kathryn Hanke Reviewer – Sara Jackson The Public Reviews Rating: This is the first performance from Whiteface theatre and writer Gemma Head. It is set in a Call centre and shows the every day lives of the staff; the ambitious if slightly crazy boss, private lives and personality clashes that take place [...]

Writer: Roy Williams Director: Maria Aberg Reviewer: Clare Howdon Roy William’s blisteringly topical play ‘Days of Significance’ first opened at the Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon in 2007, four years after the war in Iraq began. The Royal Shakespeare Company has now embarked upon a nationwide tour of the piece (with a few re-workings by [...]

Writer: Jane Austen Adaptor: Simon Reade Director: Toby Frow Reviewer: Diane Higgins Simon Reade’s adaptation directed by Toby Frow, brings together the classic text of Austen’s work, with all her well loved characters plus music (Richard Hammarton) and dance (Sam Spencer-Lane). The set design by Christopher Woods was minimal. Its raised and angled circular platform, [...]

Writer: George Bernard Shaw Director: Michael Rudman Reviewer: Elizabeth Vile Mrs Warren’s Profession was first written in 1894 and the content so shocked the press that it wasn’t performed publicly till 1925. Victorian audiences were unable to cope with Shaw’s frank and honest portrayal of a woman who chose prostitution over starvation. This choice is [...]

Writer: Michael Gannon Director: Sinead Kent Reviewer: Deborah Klayman This new play is an examination of the friendships between the artistic elite in 1890s Paris and the characters’ subsequent fall from grace and favour. Oscar Wilde visits the rooms of the post-impressionist painted Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, and also meets his companions: the prostitutes Marie and Yvette, [...]