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Dateline:
3rd May, 2008
News from the Midlands
RSC revives Doran's Dream at Stratford
The third production in the Royal Shakespeare Company's summer programme
at Stratford, A Midsummer Night's Dream which starts this week
revives Gregory Doran's
show from the 2005 Comedies Season.
Joe Dixon, who played Oberon three years ago, returns to the company
to play Bottom. His other RSC credits include Antipholus of Syracuse
in The Comedy of Errors,
also part of the Comedies Season; Paris in The Roman Actor (2003);
and Mendoza in The Malcontent (2002).
Oberon will be played by Peter de Jersey. He was last with the RSC
for the 2005 Gunpowder Season, playing Antiochus in Believe
What You Will, Evander in A
New Way To Please You and Macro in Sejanus:
His Fall.
Mark Hadfield, who played Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales in
2005, returns to the RSC to play Puck. His other theatre credits include
The 39 Steps for the West Yorkshire Playhouse; Don Juan for the
Peter Hall Company; and Grivet in the National Theatre production of
Thérèse Raquin.
A Midsummer Night's Dream runs in repertoire in the Courtyard
Theatre from Friday (May 9th) until November 13th.
ACE looks for regional council advocates
Arts Council England West Midlands is looking to appoint four arts
advocates to join its regional council.
Applicants should be able to demonstrate an overview of the full range
of the regional council's responsibilities; knowledge and understanding
of the arts and the region as well as the ability to command respect
within the arts community; the ability to think imaginatively and strategically;
and to contribute to effective decision-making.
Advocates are unpaid and should be able to commit up to twelve days
a year to the role.
An application pack is available on the Arts Council website.
The closing date is Monday, May 19th and interviews will take place
on Monday, June 2nd.
What's on this week
- Gareth Hale and Mel Giedroyc star in the Eurovision Song Contest
musical, Eurobeat, at Stoke's Regent Theatre from Monday until
Saturday;
- the Garrick Rep Company stage Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine
in the Studio at Lichfield Garrick from Monday until Saturday;
- London Classic Theatre invite you to Abigail's Party at Derby's
Guildhall Theatre on Tuesday;
- contemporary dance, aerial circus and physical theatre collide in
Gravity and Levity's Shift in the studio at Warwick Arts Centre,
Coventry on Tuesday and Wednesday;
- after seven years Cheek by Jowl's production of Alexander Pushkin's
Boris Godunov returns to the theatre at Warwick Arts Centre,
Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday;
- Theatreworks' latest adaptation, a stage version of Henry James'
The Turn of the Screw, is at the Royal, Northampton from Tuesday
until Saturday;
- Tommy Steele talks to the animals when Doctor
Dolittle moves to Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until
Saturday, May 17th;
- Bernie Nolan, Sarah White and Pauline Fleming reckon that Mum's
The Word at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday;
- Calibre Productions and Leslie Grantham discover Dad's Army -
The Lost Episodes at Buxton Opera House from Tuesday until Saturday;
- Bruce James Productions take Ted Willis's Doctor in the House,
adapted from the books by Richard Gordon, to Chesterfield Pomegranate
from Tuesday until Saturday;
- Terry Deary's Horrible Histories bring to life The Terrible
Tudors and The Vile Victorians at Nottingham's Theatre
Royal from Tuesday until Saturday;
- choreographer Rafael Bonachela and his Bonachela Dance Company take
his new show Square Map of Q4 to Nottingham Playhouse on Wednesday;
- Out of Joint's tour of David Edgar's new play Testing
the Echo ends at Birmingham Rep with performances from Wednesday
to Saturday;
- Men in Dressing Gowns stage Les Hommes Dans Robes de Chambre
in the Paupers Pit Theatre, Buxton from Thursday until Saturday;
- Hercules Productions present Different Perspectives, a one-man
show telling the story of a challenging relationship between a Jamaican
father and his son seduced by a life of crime, at the Drum, Birmingham
on Thursday and Friday;
- Dean Haglund, who played computer geek Langly in nine seasons of
the cult sci-fi series The X-Files, will improvise a new episode
in X-Files Improv at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Friday;
- Deafinitely Theatre are at the Arena, Wolverhampton on Friday and
Saturday with Lipstick and Lollipops;
- Birmingham arts centre The Drum holds an open day next Saturday
from 12 to 6pm;
- Entity, the latest production by Wayne McGregor | Random
Dance, takes to the Nottingham Playhouse stage on Saturday;
- Stephen Lowe's latest play Smile, a Lakeside and New Perspectives
Theatre Company presentation, continues at Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham
until Saturday, May 17th;
- Great Expectations continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme
until Saturday, May 17th;
- Paul Lucas's new black comedy How To Tell the Monsters from the
Misfits causes murderous mayhem in The Door at Birmingham Rep
until Saturday, May 17th;
- The Taming of the Shrew continues at the Courtyard, Stratford
until September 25th and The
Merchant of Venice in the same theatre until September 27th.
Reporter:
Steve Orme
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