Midlands productions

Published: 7 February 2016
Reporter: Steve Orme

The Crows Plucked Your Sinews in The Door at Birmingham REP
Madeleine Worrall as Jane in Jane Eyre at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham Credit: Manuel Harlan
The Great Gatsby at Derby Theatre

Russian State Ballet and Opera House presents Puccini’s Madam Butterfly at Buxton Opera House on Monday.

Natasha Gray and Kevin Pallister appear in Alan Ayckbourn’s Round and Round the Garden at Lichfield Garrick from Monday until Wednesday.

Dance theatre company Motionhouse’s “adrenaline-filled spectacle” Broken returns to mac birmingham “by popular demand” on Tuesday and Wednesday.

A “unique exploration of the violence of empire and the poetry of resistance”, The Crows Plucked Your Sinews, written and directed by Hassan Mahamdallie, will be performed by Yusra Warsaw in The Door at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Thursday.

The Bristol Old Vic and National Theatre co-production of Jane Eyre, based on Charlotte Brontë’s novel, visits the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.

The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies drops in to Curve, Leicester from Tuesday until Saturday.

A new stage adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, commissioned to mark the 90th anniversary of the novel’s publication and brought to life by Blackeyed Theatre, visits Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

A world “full of magic, fairies, vampires, love and romance, all brought to life by New Adventures’ uniquely talented dancers”, will be on view in Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday.

Audiences at Wolverhampton Grand won’t be able to take their eyes off the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons musical Jersey Boys from Tuesday until Saturday 20 February.

Based on Terence Rattigan's experiences as a tail gunner in the RAF, Flare Path focuses on the lives of the bomber crews and their sweethearts when it flies into Buxton Opera House from Wednesday until Saturday.

Described as a “Chinese Macbeth” and based on an ancient legend, Red Dragonfly and Grist To The Mill’s Diao Chan—The Rise of the Courtesan, “an epic story of lust, jealousy and revenge”, visits Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Thursday.

“One of the greatest love stories in opera”, Puccini’s La boheme takes to the Lichfield Garrick stage on Thursday.

An adaptation of Eimear McBride's award-winning novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, which features Aoife Duffin, follows the narrative of a girl from the womb to the age of 20 in the Studio at Curve, Leicester from Thursday until Saturday.

An updated version of the long-running show Thriller Live moonwalks into Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Thursday until Saturday.

Marking the 30th anniversary of the end of the miners’ strike, choreographer Gary Clarke’s Coal “takes an nostalgic look at the hard-hitting realities of life at the coal face” at DanceXchange at Birmingham Hippodrome from Thursday until Saturday.

An all-female cast turns the Dracula myth on its head when Scary Little Girls get their teeth into in a new production, Dracula: The Kisses at Lichfield Garrick on Friday.

Devised and performed by Mònica Almirall Batet, Miquel Segovia Garrell and Albert Pérez Hidalgo, Atresbandes Theatre Company’s Locus Amoenus, which features three strangers who meet on a train only to die in a crash an hour later, chugs into Derby Theatre on Friday.

A show about “the way we choose to see only the evidence that proves we’re right”, Confirmation “attempts to have an honourable dialogue, real and imagined, with political extremism” at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.

A revival of Birmingham REP’s 2014 production of John Steinbeck’s classic Of Mice And Men, featuring Kristian Phillips as Lennie and William Rodell as George, continues in the REP’s main house until Saturday.

Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre continues to present Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet until Saturday.

The “UK’s most flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll variety show” That'll Be The Day brings back the good times at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.

The world première of a fictional account of “one of the biggest police scandals of all time”, Kefi Chadwick’s Any Means Necessary, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 20 February (press night Tuesday 9 February).

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.

Peter Whelan’s play The Herbal Bed which explores the secret life of Shakespeare’s daughter continues at Northampton Royal and Derngate until Saturday 27 February (press night Tuesday 9 February).

Northern Broadsides’ new version of William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives, featuring its artistic director Barrie Rutter as Sir John Falstaff, continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 27 February.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Sandy Grierson and Oliver Ryan share the roles of Faustus and Mephistopheles in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus which continues until Thursday 4 August (press night Thursday 11 February).

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