Saturday, December 6

Tag: Paul Willis

Pig Heart Boy – Sheffield Theatres Playhouse
Yorkshire & Humber

Pig Heart Boy – Sheffield Theatres Playhouse

This play with a big heart is based on the novel by Malorie Blackman and newly adapted by Winsome Pinnock, Pig Heart Boy is an emotive and thought-provoking stage play. With the just the right amount of suggestion opposed to detail, this educational production aimed at the young adult audience, provides plenty of room for discussion both before and after. As all good theatre in education, we are introduced to the moral dilemma and allowed to consider, ruminate and make up our own minds as to the ethical/moral issue. Cameron is awaiting a heart transplant after a childhood illness severely weaken his own. With the clock ticking and his life on hold, unable to do the things his friends do and live life to the full, he is offered a pioneering, top secret and some say - unethical option of ...
Here You Come Again – Sheffield Lyceum
Yorkshire & Humber

Here You Come Again – Sheffield Lyceum

Dolly gives Sheffield a sprinkling of fabulousness as she comes to town! With 15 for Dolly Parton’s well-known songs used to offer hope and joy even if her genre of music is about tragedy! This musical is a far cry from the expected sprawling life story of the Tennesse Icon but instead is a simple heart-warming story of belief of one’s self and the magic of a ‘cup of ambition’! Written during the 2020 global pandemic and lockdown, writers Bruce Vilanch, Gabriel Barre and Tricia Padluccio (the cast’s very own Dolly Parton) mused what it would be like hunkered up at that time with Dolly Parton and thus the idea was born. Directed by Barre and primarily a two-handed piece of theatre, Kevin is a 40 something whose life is a mess, he is on an enforced ‘break’ from his partner Jeremy and subs...