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Singin’ in the Rain – Review – Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
By Clare Jenkins, July 2022 In a week that started with Britain sweltering in temperatures that reached into record-breaking low ... -
My Own Worst Enemy by Robert Edric – Review
By Clare Jenkins I moved to Sheffield from London in the 1980s, to work on The Star, the city’s evening ... -
Chums by Simon Kuper – Review
By Clare Jenkins Ten pages into this insider/outsider critique of the current Conservative leadership and I was looking up ‘tumbrils’ ... -
Breaking the News edited by Jackie Harrison & Luke McKernan – Review
By Clare Jenkins Ten years ago, working as a university lecturer, I set up a 12-week module called The History ... -
The Ro Hotel, Bowness-on-Windermere – Review
By Clare Jenkins, April 2022 If you want to know the difference between a fell, a pike and a hill, ... -
Human [Extraordinary Bodies] – Review – Sheffield Crucible Theatre
By Clare Jenkins, May 2022 There’s a moment in Extraordinary Bodies’ latest show – which is part circus, part film, ... -
Le Paradis Files – Review – Sheffield Crucible Theatre
By Clare Jenkins, May 2022 When Prince Harry married Meghan Markle four years ago, one of three pieces of music ... -
My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes – Review
By Clare Jenkins I first came across the writer Mollie Panter-Downes in India, in Higginbothams Bookshop in Ootacamund – known ... -
The Golden Cockerel [English Touring Opera] – Review – Sheffield Lyceum
By Clare Jenkins, April 2022 When Rimsky-Korsakov started writing this, his last opera, in 1906, he saw it as a ... -
The Philosophy of Curry by Sejal Sukhadwala – Review
By Clare Jenkins During 25 years of visiting India, the only place I’ve ever been offered curry and chips was ... -
Casanova [Northern Ballet] – Review – Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
By Clare Jenkins, March 2022 According to his biographer Ian Kelly, “Poor Casanova” was “less a man than an adjective”. ... -
La Boheme [English Touring Opera] – Review – Sheffield Lyceum
By Clare Jenkins The truly refreshing thing about English Touring Opera’s production of Puccini’s classic tale of love, misunderstanding and ...











