ABSTRACT
The 230 titles reproduced in the preceding pages were found in papers retrieved from the ruins of the Limit Club in Sheffield, England, sometime in the early 1990s. Collected illegally from the abandoned premises years after the venue’s closure, the papers in question are said to detail the names of theatre performances staged in the club as part of its largely undocumented alternative performance nights during the period 1984–1988. The Limit, a cramped basement nightclub on West Street, now entirely demolished, was best known as a music venue, earning a reputation for drunken violence whilst hosting bands from outside the city including U2, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Gang of Four, and the B52’s as well as local regulars The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, Artery, Comsat Angels, and Pulp. Beyond the titles of the theatre works listed here, no details are known about what they contained, how they were produced or in what style, or even who wrote, made, performed, directed, or watched them. Since no photographs, scripts, or other documents pertaining to them have been recovered, it’s possible that these plays or performances were never staged at all.
