Sheffield Hallam Acting & Performance

12/05/2025

👑 Anne Boleyn: The Downfall of a Queen
On today | Final performance of Change Makers 2025

The crown has slipped. The mask is off.

Anne Boleyn: The Downfall of a Queen is a bold, poetic reimagining of a woman’s final hours — told in her own voice. Fierce, direct, and unflinching, this intimate performance explores power, betrayal, and the cost of speaking out.

Be part of the final show of this year’s Change Makers festival.

🎟 Book your seat:
👉 https://www.shuperformance.co.uk/event-details/anne-boleyn-the-downfall-of-a-queen

📅 View the full Change Makers 2025 programme:
👉 www.shuperformance.co.uk/change-makers-2025

A period piece about Anne Boleyn expressing her true emotions about the King, her ex-husband.

12/05/2025

✨ The Pieces I Was Given
On today | Part of the final day of Change Makers 2025
Don’t miss your chance to experience one of the last performances in this year’s festival.

The Pieces I Was Given is a powerful new work by Lou Davis, exploring memory, identity, and the stories we carry...

🎟 Final tickets available here:
👉 https://www.shuperformance.co.uk/event-details/the-pieces-i-was-given

📅 Explore the full Change Makers programme before the curtain falls:
👉 www.shuperformance.co.uk/change-makers-2025

A jigsaw of memories – vivid, raw, and real. As the pieces fall into place, you might just see something you recognise.

09/05/2025

💫 Project-ION | Photo Highlights
A deep dive into memory, emotion, and resilience, Project-ION (I’m OK Now) was a heartwarming, nostalgic, and deeply personal autobiographical performance created and performed by Emily Mansfield.

Blending honesty with artistry, the piece explored mental health through fragments of lived experience — intimate, vulnerable, and quietly powerful.

📸 Photography by Becky Payne Photography
Part of Change Makers 2025 from Sheffield Hallam Acting and Performance

📅 See what else is on:
👉 www.shuperformance.co.uk/change-makers-2025

08/05/2025

🐉 Dungeon and Dragon
Thu 08 May | The Performance Studio
Part of Change Makers 2025

Two players. One game. Everything at stake.

Dungeon and Dragon throws us into a high-stress, high-stakes scenario where fantasy meets harsh reality — and collaboration is the only way out. But when tensions rise, will teamwork survive, or will everything fall apart?

🎟 On today — don’t miss it:
👉 https://www.shuperformance.co.uk/event-details/dungeon-and-dragon-2

📅 Full festival programme:
👉 www.shuperformance.co.uk/change-makers-2025

In the face of adversity, will Mark and Lewis work together or turn on one another?

08/05/2025

🌸 The Summer of Blooming Dahlias
Thu 08 May | The Performance Lab
SOLD OUT 🎟

“May the Sisterhood sleepover commence!”

A huge congratulations to the cast and creative team behind The Summer of Blooming Dahlias — today’s performance is officially sold out! This joyful, empowering celebration of Black beauty, sisterhood, and new beginnings has clearly struck a chord with audiences at Change Makers 2025.

We’re so proud to see this original work at the heart of the Sheffield Hallam Acting and Performance showcase.

Info: https://www.shuperformance.co.uk/event-details/the-summer-of-blooming-dahlias-2
📅 Explore the rest of the festival here:
👉 www.shuperformance.co.uk/change-makers-2025

“May the Sisterhood sleepover commence!” A celebration of Black beauty, joy and new beginnings.

08/05/2025

📖 If Stories Could Kill | Photo Highlights
Twisted, gripping, and darkly funny — If Stories Could Kill blurred the line between imagination and reality in this chilling interrogation of storytelling, guilt, and truth.

Performed as part of Change Makers 2025 by final-year students on the Sheffield Hallam Acting and Performance course, this bold reinterpretation left audiences questioning: what happens when the stories we tell take on a life of their own?

📸 Photos by Make it Matte Black

🎟️ Explore the full festival programme:
👉 www.shuperformance.co.uk/change-makers-2025

08/05/2025

🎮 A Tale for Two | Photo Highlights
Gaming, memory, and the fragile bonds of family — A Tale for Two explored what happens when the lines between reality and imagination begin to blur.

Created and performed by our talented graduating students as part of Change Makers 2025, this original production combined heart, humour, and emotional depth in a story of two siblings and one game that changes everything.

📸 Photography by Becky Payne Photography

🎟 See what else is on at Sheffield Hallam Acting and Performance:
👉 www.shuperformance.co.uk/change-makers-2025

07/05/2025

🧠 Project-ION
On today | The Performance Lab
Part of Change Makers 2025 for Future Now Festival of Creativity

Help! I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole into a pit of anxiety!
But what memories will this unlock?

Project-ION is an evocative, mind-bending journey through memory, emotion, and mental overload — where the boundaries between thought and reality begin to blur. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by your own mind… you're not alone.

🎟 Tickets available here (multiple times today):
👉 https://www.shuperformance.co.uk/event-details/project-ion-2

🗓 Check the full Change Makers 2025 programme for all showtimes:
👉 www.shuperformance.co.uk/change-makers-2025

Help! I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole into a pit of anxiety! But what memories will this unlock?

07/05/2025

🌀 Ozymandias
Today, at The Void Cinema (Owen Building Floor 1)
Part of Change Makers 2025 for Future Now Festival of Creativity.

Discover. Create. Destroy. Repeat.

In this atmospheric short film by Ash Stewart, a mysterious figure moves through the flow of time — caught in a relentless cycle of observation and decay. Ozymandias is a haunting reflection on impermanence, legacy, and the futility of control.

🎟 Book now:
👉 https://www.shuperformance.co.uk/event-details/ozymandias

📅 Full festival programme:
👉 www.shuperformance.co.uk/change-makers-2025

Discover, create and destroy. Follow a mysterious figure as they experience the flow of time, observing this vicious cycle over and over again.

07/05/2025

🩸 Brides of the Bathtub | Photo Highlights
Darkly poetic and hauntingly beautiful, Brides of the Bathtub delivered a ghostly retelling of true crime that captivated and unsettled in equal measure. A stunningly atmospheric piece from Change Makers 2025.

📸 Photography by Becky Payne

Explore the full Sheffield Hallam Acting and Performance programme:
👉 www.shuperformance.co.uk/change-makers-2025