Midlands productions

Published: 31 January 2016
Reporter: Steve Orme

The Solid Life of Sugar Water in The Door at Birmingham REP
The Roadless Trip at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
Vamos Theatre’s The Best Thing at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby

Lesley Joseph plays Miss Hannigan in Annie which visits the Regent Theatre, Stoke from Monday until Saturday.

Margaret Thatcher is counting her votes, Sid Vicious is spinning in his grave and six Welsh miners are trapped down a coal mine in Chris Urch's debut play Land of Our Fathers, a Theatre 503 production, which tours to mac birmingham on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The National Theatre production of J B Priestley’s An Inspector Calls rings the changes at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.

Jack Thorne’s new play The Solid Life of Sugar Water, “an intimate, tender portrait of loss, hurt and recovery”, is a Graeae Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth presentation in The Door at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.

Sarah Woods’s The Roadless Trip, “mixing performance, film and Saturday-night style gameshow games” that “promises to lift you up even when you’re broken down” stops off in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Wednesday.

A “swinging ‘60s story of unconditional love from the UK’s leading full mask theatre company”, Vamos Theatre’s The Best Thing visits Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday.

A cast of “some of the country’s finest singers” along with a 26-piece orchestra present two concert performances of Gilbert and Sullivan’s works at Buxton Opera House in Tarantara Productions’ HMS Pinafore on Wednesday and Saturday and Iolanthe on Thursday and Friday.

Jacqueline Wilson’s tale of plucky Hetty Feather will be “the perfect treat for all the family” when it wafts into the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Wednesday until Sunday.

Motionhouse’s “adrenaline-filled spectacle” Broken dances into Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Thursday and Friday.

Propeller Theatre Company stages Pocket Dream, a 60-minute version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for young audiences, at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday.

Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre presents Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet from Thursday until Saturday 13 February.

Robert Lloyd Parry performs two of M R James’s “most chilling” works, Casting the Runes and The Residence at Whitminster, in the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Friday.

Robert Habermann tells the story of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Fred and Ginger at Lichfield Garrick on Friday.

University of Derby Theatre Arts students present a double bill of Dennis Kelly’s DNA and Peter Handke’s The Hour Before We Knew Nothing of Each Other at Derby Theatre on Friday and Saturday.

The Fizzogs’ Freezin', a Black Country panto which sends up the popular tale Frozen, should raise a laugh at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Saturday.

The story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and their rise to stardom is told in Jersey Boys, which continues at Derngate, Northampton until Saturday.

Dance4’s Mass Movement, an event that provides young people in Leicestershire with an opportunity to showcase their work, takes to the stage at Curve, Leicester on Sunday.

Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre stages in its B2 auditorium a new production of Molière’s rarely performed romantic comedy The Sisterhood which continues until Saturday 20 February (press night Tuesday 2 February).

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