Playhouse, Sheffield – until October 11th 2025 Reviewed by Sharon Farley 4**** Consumed packs a lot into its 70 minute slot, it has more layers than an onion and would be hard pushed to study half of ...

Four stories of home, belonging, dislocation. About falling apart and putting ourselves together again. About drawing route maps around Glasgow, around Scotland. (And all the stuff they don’t show you...

Imagine inviting the family round for your 80th birthday, pouring the drinks, cutting the cake and then announcing that you intend to be dead tomorrow. That is the grenade Vivienne Blackwood throws into the celebrations in Morna Young’s After Party. A celebrated former actress, Vivienne has terminal cancer and has decided that she will determine the manner and timing of her own death. She wants her fractured family around her when she does it. You could hardly ask for a more combustible theatrical premise. What is surprising is how rarely 

Paines Plough today announces the appointment of Claire Simpson who will take on the role of Executive Director in August this year, with Lilli Geissendorfer joining the company until then as Inter…