A play that lasts three hours and 55 years

A play that lasts three hours and 55 years

Can you really condense over half a century in the life of a family — or the life of this city — into a single evening? This is the trick that Living, a new Sheffield-set play currently showing at the Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse, pulls off with both speed and grace. It follows its central character Kathy through 55 years of life, from an optimistic 20-year-old newlywed all the way into old age. It’s an ambitious concept from the Sheffield-born …