Midlands productions

Published: 12 April 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

The Mist in the Mirror at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
Kali Theatre’s Twelve at mac birmingham
Cyrano de Bergerac at the Royal, Northampton

Twelve young people from East Park Primary School in Wolverhampton will join English Touring Opera on stage at the city’s Grand Theatre for Puccini’s La Bohème on Monday and The Siege of Calais by Donizetti on Tuesday.

Gray O’Brien is Detective Roy Grace in the stage adaptation of Peter James’s best-selling novel Dead Simple which tours to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

Joan Littlewood’s legendary musical Oh, What a Lovely War!, revived to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I, visits Leicester’s Curve from Monday until Saturday.

16- to 18-year-olds at Mansfield Palace Youth Theatre, known as Chapter 4, will perform The Boy Preference by Elinor Cook on the Palace Theatre’s main stage on Tuesday.

A ghostly chill is expected to fall over Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre when it stages The Mist in the Mirror, adapted by Ian Kershaw from the novel by Susan Hill, from Tuesday until Saturday.

The unauthorized Doctor Who musical comedy I Need A Doctor - The Whosical regenerates at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Wednesday.

Vamos Theatre’s Nursing Lives, “a love story set in the early 1980s of Thatcher’s Britain and the hard-working, heart-breaking, swing-dancing world of the UK’s wartime hospitals”, visits the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton-on-Trent on Wednesday.

A “tense thriller set in deep winter in the English Lake District”, James Cawood’s Stone Cold Murder is presented by Talking Scarlet at Buxton Opera House from Wednesday until Saturday.

Twelve monologues representing the 12 “honour killings” that take place each year in the UK and inspired by true stories will be performed in Kali Theatre’s Twelve at mac birmingham on Thursday and Friday.

Cathy Grindrod’s Swing, a new play from Write Track—Mansfield Palace Theatre’s new writing programme—which focuses on four teenagers who find themselves forced into attending a community centre as part of their rehabilitation after committing crimes, will be staged at Create Theatre, Mansfield on Thursday and Friday.

Claire Sweeney performs Sex in Suburbia, a new comedy about “dating, men and finding Mr Right”, at Northampton’s Derngate on Friday.

Anthony Burgess’s translation of Edmund Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac continues on the Northampton Royal stage until Saturday 25 April.

The touring version of Shrek the Musical continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 26 April.

Graham Linehan’s adaptation of the classic comedy The Ladykillers continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 2 May.

The Royal Shakespeare Company continues to celebrate the centenary of Arthur Miller’s birth by staging Death of a Salesman in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford until Saturday 2 May while in the Swan Theatre John Ford’s rarely performed play Love's Sacrifice continues until Wednesday 24 June (press night Monday 20 April) and Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta continues until Tuesday 8 September.

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