Midlands productions

Published: 9 August 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

The Lord Chamberlain’s Men with Twelfth Night at Chatsworth
Alexandra Burke (Rachel Marron) in The Bodyguard at Birmingham Hippodrome Credit: Alessandro Pinna
Annette McLaughlin (Lady Politic Would-Be) and Henry Goodman (Volpone) in Volpone in the Swan Theatre, Stratford Credit: Manuel Harlan

The Colin McIntyre Classic Thriller Season continues at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal with Emlyn Williams’s psychological drama Night Must Fall from Monday until Saturday.

Open-air touring specialists The Lord Chamberlain’s Men stage Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at Chatsworth, Derbyshire on Wednesday.

The “purveyors of cool” in the Rat Pack Vegas Spectacular Show swing into Buxton Opera House with some of the greatest music of the 20th century, featuring classic hits from Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr, on Saturday.

Alexandra Burke plays the lead role of Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard which continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 5 September.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Hugh Quarshie and Lucian Msamati team up to play Othello and Iago in Iqbal Khan’s production of Othello which continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Friday 28 August and plays in repertoire with The Merchant of Venice which continues until Wednesday 2 September; in the Swan Theatre, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta continues until Tuesday 8 September and Volpone until Saturday 12 September.

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