Midlands productions

Published: 13 August 2017
Reporter: Steve Orme

Dracula – The Bloody Truth in the Patrick Centre at Birmingham Hippodrome
The Crucible at Malvern Theatres Credit: Louise Thomas
Matthew Pidgeon (Herod) and Matthew Tennyson (Salomé) in Salomé in the Swan Theatre, Stratford Credit: Isaac James

Physical theatre company La Navet Bete sinks its teeth into the blood-curdling history of Transylvania’s most famous export in Dracula—The Bloody Truth in the Patrick Centre at Birmingham Hippodrome on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Heartbreak Productions takes to the road with two of its shows, Billionaire Boy by David Walliams at St John's House Museum, Warwick on Tuesday, Ragley Hall, Alcester, Warwickshire on Thursday and Charterhouse Priory, London Road, Coventry on Saturday, and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey at Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire on Friday.

Malvern Theatres’ Young Company of 13- to 25-year-olds performs Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in the Festival Theatre from Wednesday until Saturday.

The Stafford Gatehouse Theatre summer school production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat takes to the Gatehouse main stage from Wednesday until Saturday.

The Stage Experience project at Stoke’s Regent Theatre which involves youngsters aged from 8 to 19 performs Disney’s High School Musical: on Stage! at the Regent from Thursday until Saturday.

The Curve young company and community actors continue to stage Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Curve, Leicester until Saturday.

Ian Kennedy Productions takes its adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland to the Museum in the Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire on Sunday.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Titus Andronicus continues until Saturday 2 September, Antony and Cleopatra 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.

Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Boublil and Schönberg’s musical Miss Saigon continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 23 September.

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