Midlands productions

Published: 19 February 2017
Reporter: Steve Orme

Laura Whitmore (Cleo Morey) and Shane Richie (Det Supt Roy Grace) in Not Dead Enough at Malvern Theatres Credit: Mark Douet
Ian Sharrock as “Bunny” Manders in Raffles – The Mystery of the Murdered Thief at Buxton Opera House
Cyrano at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Credit: Nobby Clark

Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, featuring Stuart Fox and Joseph Chance, tours to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

The world première of Peter James’s crime thriller Not Dead Enough, featuring Shane Richie and Laura Whitmore, should cop a good audience at Malvern Theatres from Monday until Saturday.

Ballet Theatre UK dances into Mansfield Palace Theatre with the great romantic ballet Giselle on Wednesday.

Based on the book by Michael Morpurgo and brought to life with colourful, life-sized animal puppets, Running Wild should provide a half-term treat at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Wednesday until Saturday.

Fifth Word’s production of Jane Upton’s All the Little Lights, which tells the story of three girls slipping through the cracks in society, tours to The Door at Birmingham REP from Wednesday until Tuesday 28 February.

In a “better-late-than-never nod to the Bard’s 400th anniversary”, the Reduced Shakespeare Company performs William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) at Curve, Leicester from Thursday until Saturday.

Rumpus Theatre Company stages Raffles – The Mystery of the Murdered Thief at Buxton Opera House from Thursday until Saturday.

Based on stories by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book gets the Oddsocks Productions treatment at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Friday.

Choreographer James Wilton re-imagines Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick as Leviathan which features “Wilton’s trademark blend of athletic dance and martial arts” at mac Birmingham on Friday.

Northampton Royal and Derngate’s young company performs Tim Etchells’s Status Update, “an unflinching and funny catalogue of the things teenagers learn, believe and have sussed out about the world”, in the venue’s Underground space on Friday and Saturday.

Northamptonshire’s annual dance showcase event N.Dance 2017 which gives young people an opportunity to showcase their work will be staged at The Core at Corby Cube on Saturday.

Liza Goddard plays a passionate, doting mother who finds it hard to accept that her son is leaving home to get married in Kay Mellor’s romantic comedy A Passionate Woman which continues at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham until Saturday.

Northern Broadsides and Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic continue to stage Cyrano, Deborah McAndrew’s new adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s romantic comedy Cyrano de Bergerac, at the Staffordshire theatre-in-the-round until Saturday.

David Bintley’s “enchanting” fairy tale Cinderella for Birmingham Royal Ballet continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday.

Two Nottingham actresses, Vicky McClure and Aisling Loftus, team up in the 40th anniversary revival of Stephen Lowe’s play Touched which continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 4 March.

The stage adaptation of Eric Idle’s The Quite Remarkable Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat continues at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until Saturday 4 March.

Willy Russell’s uplifting story of self-discovery Educating Rita, a co-production between Derby Theatre and Octagon Theatre Bolton, continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday 11 March.

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