Review of Frozen 

British Theatre Guide Online 

"Sita Calvert-Ennals is one of three emerging directors to have been mentored this year by Living Pictures Productions' acclaimed directors training initiative. Staged as part of the Sherman's Directors Week, Frozen certainly marks out Calvert-Ennals as talent worth nurturing.

Bryony Lavery's play is a harrowing examination of the kidnap, assault and murder of an 11 year old girl through the eyes of her grieving mother, her killer and a criminal psychologist. It's dark stuff that reaches deep into the human psyche; an ambitious choice for an emerging director. But Calvert-Ennals treats this three-hander with the uncluttered simplicity it needs, laying bare the characters and letting Lavery's characteristic humour come to the fore, rather than dousing the stage in high-octane emotion from the start. And Adrienne O'Sullivan's portrayal of the moment Nancy handles her daughter's remains is all the more devastating for this light touch.

Richard Corgan and Jennifer Lee Jellicorse complete the strong cast for this affecting and memorable production. "

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Reviews of Holes

This is Bath review 

On a cold November afternoon those of us in the egg theatre, Bath, were swept away from a world of traffic jams and Christmas shoppers and into a parallel universe of gypsy curses, retribution, greed and friendship – a scenario admirably conjured up by the cast of YPT.

Huw Allen was an absolute star as Stanley Yelnats, the boy who is sent to a Texan desert boot camp to dig holes as punishment for allegedly stealing a pair of trainers. He blames his troubles on his 'no good dirty rotten pig-stealing great-great-grandfather' whose misdeeds brought a gypsy curse on to the family a century earlier. 

Much of the story takes place in the desert camp, effectively depicted by a single symbolic cactus and set against a background of bluegrass music that evokes the heat and atmosphere of the Deep South.The desert scenes are the most powerful of the play, the tension quite palpable as the juvenile delinquents fight the environment, each other and their camp supervisors for supremacy or survival.

YPT's Holes – directed by Sita Calvert-Ennals – is a powerful production and a tribute to the talented members of YPT.

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