{"id":267403,"date":"2025-07-16T19:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/267403\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T19:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:48:20","slug":"an-evening-without-kate-bush-crucible-theatre-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/267403\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening Without Kate Bush &#8211; Crucible Theatre, Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Creators: Sarah-Louise Young and Russell Lucas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a one-woman show. Sarah-Louise Young has a great voice and sings around fifteen Kate Bush songs, very convincingly to a recorded soundtrack. The songs are combined with some Bush-like dance moves and mime; shadow puppetry; the occasional fact about Bush; messages from fans about how important she\u2019s been in their life; and lots of chatting to the audience. Young makes light of the thinness and slow start of the show by telling us \u2018not to worry because the show hasn\u2019t started yet\u2026\u2019 \u2013 it\u2019s 30 minutes before she tells us it\u2019s started. It\u2019s an impressive feat to hold the stage for almost two hours, but her singing of Bush\u2019s songs is by far the most enjoyable part of the show.<\/p>\n<p>Young and Russell Lucas created the piece six years ago and it was premiered at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe. Those fringe origins are clear \u2013 around an hour\u2019s worth of content and a very bare set, with just a suitcase of \u2018home-made\u2019 Kate Bush costumes, wigs and props. The magnificent Crucible stage seems too big \u2013 in all respects \u2013 for a show like this. The diminutive Young, dressed often in black, in front of a massive black backcloth and on a black stage, makes it difficult to impress. She makes interesting use of spotlights and hand held lights, and her movement is expansive, but the spectacle is too small for the space. A more intimate venue would surely work better.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105685 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1745434209_809_unnamed-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, if you like your Kate Bush, you\u2019ll really enjoy the songs including Running Up That Hill, Cloudbusting, The Man With The Child In His Eyes, Wow, Them Heavy People, King of the Mountain, Hammer Horror, This Woman\u2019s Work, Hounds of Love and Babooshka. Young carries off the songs with great aplomb. The show ends with Bush\u2019s first recorded song \u2013 Wuthering Heights \u2013 which sadly Young doesn\u2019t sing, but rather turns the microphone on us\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewed on 15th July 2025. 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