Six young women talk about being female and “dealing with role models, patterns of expectation, persisting inequalities and everyday abuse as well as the new-found liberties and joys of being a woman” in Ontroerend Goed’s Sirens at mac birmingham on Monday and Tuesday.
Middle Ground Theatre Company stages a ghost story double bill, The Signalman by Charles Dickens and Robert Aickman’s The Waiting Room, which feature Jack Shepherd, at Buxton Opera House from Monday until Wednesday.
A “delightful evening of theatrical absurdity” is in store at Northampton Royal in a play adapted from the works of P G Wodehouse, Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, from Monday until Saturday.
Robert Powell takes the lead role in Mike Bartlett’s “future history play” King Charles III at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake, “atmospheric, romantic and beautiful”, continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Tuesday.
Featuring “some of the UK’s finest actor-musicians”, Buddy Holly and The Cricketers tours to the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Tuesday and Buxton Opera House on Friday.
Susie Blake will play the Queen in the Tricycle Theatre’s production of Moira Buffini’s comedy Handbagged which visits Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.
Inspired and loosely based on the notorious blog of writer and artist Dennis Cooper, Weaklings “disorientingly blurs fiction and documentary, fact and fantasy, to create a compelling portrait of people on the edge, finding a strange refuge together in difficult times”, at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Wednesday and Thursday.
Fol Espoir takes its World War II comedy that pokes fun at British eccentricities and the American troops who tried to understand them to The Theatre, Chipping Norton on Wednesday, The Old School, Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire on Friday, Kegworth Village Hall, Leicestershire on Saturday and Ludford Village Hall, Lincolnshire on Sunday.
2Faced Dance performs a double bill from award-winning choreographer Tamsin Fitzgerald and Frantic Assembly’s Eddie Kay, Dreaming in Code, at Buxton Opera House on Thursday.
Set in a theatre threatened with closure, ”a hopeless manager, a double act and an unconvincing male impersonator attempt a stunt like nothing they’ve tried before” in The Doppel Gang, a Just Some Theatre Company presentation in the Pavilion Arts Centre Studio, Buxton on Thursday.
A triple bill called Variations which celebrates Birmingham Royal Ballet’s 25 years in the city and consists of Theme and Variations, George Balanchine’s love letter to classical Russian ballet, Kin by former company dancer Alexander Whitley with a “pulsing, hypnotic” score by Phil Kline and Enigma Variations, Frederick Ashton’s depiction of Edward Elgar and his friends, takes up residency at Birmingham Hippodrome from Thursday until Saturday.
The Vienna Festival Ballet returns to Lichfield Garrick to perform “one of the most magical and comical ballets of all time”, Coppelia by Delibes, from Thursday until Saturday.
Simon McBurney traces the journey of National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre who found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley, Brazil in The Encounter at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Thursday until Sunday.
Fulfilling a long held desire to pay tribute to his hero Stan Laurel, Jeffrey Holland performs …and this is my friend Mr Laurel, an “intriguing, funny and often poignant tale of friendship, love and dedication about one of Hollywood’s great film comedians”, in the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Friday.
York-based Pilot Theatre brings together a creative team which includes Nottingham writer Emteaz Hussain for a new play inspired by an acclaimed work of French literature, L’Etranger by Albert Camus, Outsiders, in Derby Theatre Studio on Friday.
Single Shoe Productions’ debut tour of Crazy Glue, created, directed and performed by Filipa Tomas and Bradley Wayne Smith, which sees two people “communicating solely through sound effects and their own invented language as they tell a universal story of love and loss”, visits Stamford Arts Centre, Lincolnshire on Friday.
Award-winning dancer and Curve associate artist Aakash Odedra presents the world première of his new double bill, Echoes and I Imagine, at Leicester’s Curve on Friday and Saturday.
Nick Walker’s Our Main Story Tonight, a new play inspired by whatever major story is dominating the news and written in the five days leading up to the show, takes to the B2 auditorium stage at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Friday and Saturday.
Set in “a space between wellness and illness, between the world of objective reality and a world of hallucinations and delusions”, Mike Kenny and Julie Bode’s Cracked is a Santé Theatre presentation in Derby Theatre Studio on Saturday.
A “celebratory and inspirational one-woman show that celebrates spirituality and sensuality”, Tonya Joy Bolton’s The Holy and Horny Farewell Tour rolls into The Drum, Birmingham on Saturday.
Paul Allen’s adaptation of the hit film Brassed Off which is helping to celebrate 40 years since Derby Theatre opened continues until Saturday.
Dean Chisnall is the beloved swamp-dwelling ogre in Shrek the Musical which continues at Wolverhampton Grand until Sunday.
James Phillips’s award-winning play The Rubenstein Kiss which is having its regional première continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 17 October (press night Tuesday 6 October).
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Alex Hassell takes the title role of Henry V which runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Sunday 25 October while in the Swan Theatre Marina Carr’s new play based on the epic tale of Hecuba which explores “war, womanhood and regime change” runs until Saturday 17 October.