Midlands productions

Published: 25 June 2017
Reporter: Steve Orme

Charles Davies (Wormold) and Isla Carter (Beatrice) in Our Man in Havana at Lichfield Garrick Credit: David John King
Adrian Zmed (Georges) and John Partridge (Albin) in La Cage aux Folles at Wolverhampton Grand Credit: Pamela Raith
The Magic Flute at Stafford Castle as part of Stafford Festival Shakespeare

Clive Francis’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s spy thriller Our Man in Havana goes undercover at Lichfield Garrick from Monday until Wednesday.

Jane Austen’s romantic comedy Emma, adapted by Tim Luscombe, which is on its first national tour, visits Malvern Theatres from Tuesday until Saturday.

Bill Kenwright’s new production of the musical La Cage aux Folles featuring John Partridge as Albin, Adrian Zmed as Georges and Marti Webb as Jacqueline is what it is at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

Samantha Womack is Morticia, Carrie Hope Fletcher plays Wednesday, Cameron Blakely is Gomez and Les Dennis takes the role of Uncle Fester in The Addams Family the Musical Comedy at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.

A tale of a poor fishing community on the Yorkshire coast in the years just before World War II, Open Road Productions’ Silver Darling—The Musical, written by Tim Harvey with songs and music by Phil Baggaley, visits the Guildhall Theatre, Derby from Tuesday until Saturday.

Welsh National Opera is at Birmingham Hippodrome with Madam Butterfly by Puccini on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, Die Fledermaus by Johan Strauss II on Wednesday and Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier on Saturday.

Giovanni Pernice from BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing takes his new show, Il Ballo È Vita (Dance Is Life), to The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Wednesday.

Afsaneh Gray’s “post-Brexit satire that explores what it’s like to be treated as a foreigner in your own land”, Octopus from Paper Tiger Productions and Greenwich Theatre visits the Foyle Studio at mac Birmingham on Wednesday and the Studio at Derby Theatre on Saturday.

Lichfield-based actress Lizzie Wofford takes the lead role in Fanny: A New Musichall, which tells the story of a young actress rehearsing for her Drury Lane debut during the Victorian period, at Lichfield Garrick on Thursday and Friday.

A theatrical exploration of madness, prison and solitary confinement, Talking Birds’ Disorder Contained receives its première at the Shopfront Theatre, Coventry from Thursday until Saturday.

Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic revives its production of Laura Eason’s adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around The World In 80 Days which continues until Saturday 8 July before it goes on a national tour.

Stafford Festival Shakespeare continues with The Tempest in the grounds of Stafford Castle until Saturday 8 July while Heritage Opera stages a one-off production at the Festival of Mozart’s The Magic Flute on Sunday 2 July.

Split Second Productions’ double bill of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream continues at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire until Tuesday 11 July.

Groups of up to four people are able to experience the stories of three generations of Northampton football fans in The Twelfth Player, a site-specific performance at Northampton Town’s Sixfields stadium, which continues until Wednesday 12 July.

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, 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 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.

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