Ecclesall Theatre Company – Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (12th May 2026)

Ecclesall Parish Church, Sheffield Slick, atmospheric with a good dose of humour. Voodini and Rhodes’ work is a delightful interpretation of the Stevenson classic. Sheffield’s Gothic theatre scene continues to grow, evolve and frighten through these seven hills. In the headlines there are an increasing number of wonderful horror-related big-budget theatre events past, present, future […]

Gravest Fears – Theatre Review- University of Sheffield (29 Oct 23)

A picture of Robert Lloyd Parry looking academically perplexed with a pipe his mouth in the spitting image of M R James

We are off to see Nunkie Productions (https://www.nunkie.co.uk/) touring show of “Gravest Fears” as part of their M R James Project, spreading ghost stories through the land; those wonderous things that thankfully don’t ever die. The show is in association with the Enable Us Project at the University of Sheffield (https://performancevenues.group.shef.ac.uk/enable-us/) which has been showing […]

“Finding Folk” play – Sheffield University Drama Studio (5th August 2021) A Review

So after a pretty big hiatus for live events, we found ourselves trundling off to the Sheffield University Drama Studio to see the latest play “Finding Folk” by Phoebe Ophelia (http://www.phoebeophelia.com/finding.html). Centred on the life experiences of Ophelia (a young Lancashire woman who we find has suffered trauma within her family), the scene sets on […]