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Hello, and welcome to Sheffield Hallam University! My name is Tom Payne and I'm the Course Leader for the BA (hons) Acting and Performance.
It's not long since we said a fond farewell to students who have been with us since September 2017, and now w
**FAST TURNAROUND CALL OUT**❗️❗️❗️🎬🎬🎬
Hi everyone, we're filming a video for the University of Sheffield's online Festival of the Mind platform and are looking for interview applicants. The video is focusing on the impact of events on mental health, w
Hi everyone! I hope you are all well? I'm a SHU Performance graduate from 2019 and I wanted to show you a project that I’m acting in called ‘Last Rites’. Lockdown has been a difficult time for artists, and we’ve all been doing our best to get involve
Doppelganster's 2019 'Choke me'.
A review by Katie Bott.
Doppelganster's 'choke me' is not your typical theatre performance. The art forms of acting, dance and music all work together, they are each well executed individually, and ultimately come toget
The Last King of Scotland.
The Crucible, Sheffield.
Tobi Bamtefa gives a capturing performance of the unpredictable and savage dictator Idi Amin, highlighted further by the anxious and fearful Dr Nicholas Garrigan played by Daniel Portman, Bamtefa por
Picture by: Helen Murray
What is the purpose of theatre? A question raised when watching the striking Ugandan Politics through the eyes of a white man in Sheffield’s Crucible theatre.
The Last King of Scotland, adapted by the English writer Steve Wat
Steve Water’s The Last King of Scotland; a tonally deaf production, yet held up by technical prowess. On the 16th of October I saw the story of the former war-hero, turned tyrannical Dictator, Idi Amin, and the slow breakdown of law and order in Ugan
Our BA (honours) degree in Performance for Stage and Screen at Sheffield Hallam University has scored an impressive 100% for overall student satisfaction in the National Student Survey (NSS) for the second year running!
This year, the course, which p
"COLD WAR"; a brilliantly fitting title for the invigorating experimental piece, Doppelgangster's newest eco-aware performance project.
If you don't know Doppelgangster, you are surely out of the performance art circuit. Doppelgangster is a two man
INTRODUCING OUR PRODUCER:
KIERA RHODES
"I'm Kiera and I am studying Performance for Stage and Screen at Sheffield Hallam University.
I wanted to put on a performance of 'The Tempest' because I love a romantic play, and comedies are always good!
This is m
INTRODUCING OUR DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER:
CHARMAINE LAMBERT
She is a final year 'Performance for Stage and Screen' student at Sheffield Hallam University
"I wanted to put on a production of The Tempest because I enjoy the bard’s work and it was the most
"Smoke & Mirrors", a postmodern Shakespeare adaptation. I didn't quite know what to expect as the cast wanted it to be this way and it's safe to say that I was thoroughly impressed!
A combination of classic Shakespeare monologue and scene text intert
This performance was the perfect opening for the Final Show Festival of SHU Performance at Sheffield Hallam University.
"Unexpected" is a contemporary comedy play, full of tasty sarcasm and biblical wit, focusing on the central character 'Mia' as she
Meet Mia... The present version. Played by Alexandra Hughes
"Hey, So Mia...is my total opposite: sexy, sassy, sarcastic, intellige-just kidding, uni wouldn’t allow me to pay all this money if I wasn’t smart, right? Nope our education system in Britai
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in the first week or two of this moudle we would start building our websites, putting everything we would need to reach and show casting directors and agents.
I was lucky and had already built a mostly finsished website in my previous…
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"feels like fragments of a mosaic" - The Guardian 2019 is a beautiful way of describing this play.
When me and Mae were first told we would be doing a duologue together we were really pleased. We know we are reliable and can work well…
Second year screenwriting students need voice cast for their audio narrative series:
Gene B. Hammerfist - Middle aged, cocky and narcissistic (The host of the radio show "Hammerfisted")
Clive - The shows producer…
I am filming a video for my final year project which looks at the female body and body satisfaction.
Models must be comfortable to be filmed in basic underwear.
Models must be comfortable in front of a…
We were given an instruction and introduction to Foley sound, the art of creating sound effects using sometimes bizarre methods that actually create rather genuine sounds. A particular example of this bizarreness was to use the crunching of…
Today we experimented with foley sound. This was my first experience doing things like this. This morning we learned about how the experts use different things to create everyday sound. " using everyday objects to create realistic sound effects,…
Our newest piece of work was the creation of an audio performance, an audio tour to be specific. The brief was to create one based on the Sheffield ampitheatre that combined actual historical facts as well as some original information, which is…
