Midlands productions

Published: 4 June 2017
Reporter: Steve Orme

Don’t Dress For Dinner at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
Pauline Mayers in What if I Told You at Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester Credit: Lizzie Coombes
Stadium at Birmingham REP

A “collision of fiercely energetic dance and comedic theatre”, Hiccup Project’s May-We-Go-Round which is “honest, provocative and laugh-out-loud funny” visits mac Birmingham on Monday.

English Touring Opera’s new production of the classic Puccini opera Tosca is on tour at the Regent Theatre, Stoke on Monday.

Charlie Condou takes the role of witch-hunter Reverend Hale and Victoria Yeates is Elizabeth Proctor in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham from Monday until Saturday.

Sara Crowe, Damien Williams and Ben Roddy appear in Marc Camoletti’s comedy of confusion Don't Dress for Dinner at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Monday until Saturday.

A play about depression and the lengths we go to for those we love, Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donohoe’s Every Brilliant Thing, a Paines Plough and Pentabus production, can be seen in the Foyle Studio at mac Birmingham on Tuesday.

Stafford Gatehouse Youth Theatre group 4 presents the children’s musical Dazzle!, telling the story of Poppy Pringle who inherits a run-down seaside fun fair, at the Gatehouse from Tuesday until Friday.

Jodie Prenger is Shirley Valentine in Willy Russell’s play at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.

Samantha Womack plays Morticia, Les Dennis is Uncle Fester and Carrie Hope Fletcher plays Wednesday Addams in the first UK tour of The Addams Family which is at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday.

The first UK tour of Samuel Adamson’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Running Wild stops off at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.

The second piece of theatre in a two-year project by Theatre Absolute, I Am Here, written and performed by Laila Alj, premières at the Shop Front Theatre, Coventry on Wednesday.

Pauline Mayers tells her story as a black woman, dancer and choreographer, inviting her audience to challenge boundaries, personal histories, gender and skin colour, in What if I Told You at Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester on Friday.

A “playful and unusual tale of fear, anxiety and the idiosyncratic and frankly absurd strategies we employ to manage our sense of impending doom”, Idiot Child’s What If The Plane Falls Out The Sky? takes off in the Foyle Studio at mac Birmingham on Friday.

Choreographer and Sadler’s Wells associate artist Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui collaborates with a cast of 17 in Milonga, a “seductive and fascinating exploration of tango”, in the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Friday and Saturday.

The drama of theatre meets the thrill of football in Mohamed El Khatib’s Stadium, featuring real stories as told by Birmingham City, Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion fans, at Birmingham REP from Friday until Saturday 17 June.

A multi-discipline ballet / jazz / illustration performance piece featuring “some of the UK’s most creative and in-demand improvisers”, Wolves are People Too visits the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Saturday.

Certain Dark Things uses a combination of puppetry, physical theatre and animation to tell the story of a man who treads the fine line between genius and insanity in Melancholy in the Studio at Derby Theatre on Saturday.

A new production of Ayub Khan-Din’s East is East which reimagines the play for the 21st century continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.

The Leicester Curve and West Yorkshire Playhouse co-production of The Graduate, featuring Catherine McCormack as Mrs Robinson and Jack Monaghan as Benjamin, continues at Curve until Saturday.

Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Arnold Bennett by staging a new adaptation of his novel Anna of the Five Towns which continues until Saturday 17 June.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Antony and Cleopatra continues until Thursday 7 September and Julius Caesar until Saturday 9 September; in the Swan Theatre Phil Porter’s new play Vice Versa (or the Decline and Fall of General Braggadocio at the hands of his canny servant Dexter and Terence the monkey) continues until Saturday 9 September; in the Swan Theatre, Oscar Wilde’s lyrical one-act play Salomé, marking 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales, continues until Wednesday 6 September; and in The Other Place, the Spring Mischief Festival, featuring Tom Morton-Smith’s one-act play The Earthworks and Matt Hartley and Kirsty Housley’s Myth, continues until Saturday 17 June.

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