Tonight was the opening night of the tour for Operation Crucible, by Folie à deux Productions and From Ground Up Theatre Company, which will be touring around England over the next month. Set during the bombing of Sheffield by the Luftwaffe in 1940, the action takes place among a group of four steel workers during a night of their city under siege. Alarming and visceral, the play switches back and forth between reminiscences of the kind of factory life which no longer really exists in modern Britain, and the awful realities of wartime and what people did to survive. Kieran Knowles has written an excellent play drawn on real experiences that will stay with the audiences of Operation Crucible for a long time. ★★★★☆ @BookingAround 7th October 2016
