In the second episode of the series, Ashley Barnes, Deputy Head of the Dept of Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University, speaks to playwright Chris Bush about the challenges of writing for the different Crucible stages and the rewards of writing about her home city. Chris is an award-winning playwright, whose work for Sheffield Theatres includes Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Steel and The Sheffield Mysteries. She is currently working on her most ambitious work, Rock/Paper/Scissors, which involves three different plays with he same actors being performed simultaneously in the Crucible auditorium, the Studio and the Lyceum.