Midlands productions

Published: 14 January 2018
Reporter: Steve Orme

From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads at Derby Theatre
Mark Farrelly in Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope at Lichfield Garrick
Twelfth Night in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Credit: Manuel Harlan

Nottingham-born writer and director Adrian Berry’s production about a young David Bowie obsessive, From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads, tours to Derby Theatre on Monday and Tuesday.

Mischief Theatre’s The Play That Goes Wrong returns to the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Tuesday until Saturday.

Rumpus Theatre Company performs Ray Cooney’s farce Caught in the Net, featuring John Lyons as Granddad, at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield from Tuesday until Saturday.

Middle Ground Theatre Company presents the world première of Margaret May Hobbs’s adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s Gallowglass at Wolverhampton Grand from Thursday until Saturday.

Nottingham’s Theatre Royal discovers What the Ladybird Heard in a stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks’s farmyard adventure from Thursday until Sunday.

Mark Farrelly's solo show Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope, about “flamboyantly gay” Quentin Crisp, “one of the most memorable figures of the 20th century”, visits the Studio at Lichfield Garrick on Friday.

Northampton’s Derngate welcomes “the nation’s favourite ballroom couple” Anton du Beke and Erin Boag who go From Broadway to Hollywood on Friday and Birmingham Royal Ballet with An Evening of Music and Dance on Saturday while on the Royal stage the company’s co-production with simple8 of E M Forster’s A Passage to India continues until Saturday.

Kenneth Alan Taylor writes and directs Cinderella which continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday.

Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine continues in the Studio at Curve, Leicester until Saturday.

A new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 27 January.

Beverley Knight is the Fairy Godmother, Strictly Come Dancing finalist Danny Mac becomes Prince Charming, Matt Slack plays Buttons and Suzanne Shaw takes the lead role in Cinderella which continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 28 January.

Phil Davis plays Ebenezer Scrooge in David Edgar’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol which continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford until 4 February; Adrian Edmondson makes his RSC debut as Malvolio and Kara Tointon plays Olivia in Twelfth Night which continues until 24 February; and in the Swan Theatre, Mike Poulton’s adaptation of The Cicero Trilogy by Robert Harris, Imperium Part I: Conspirator and Imperium Part II: Dictator, continue until Saturday 10 February.

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