A two-week celebration of theatre will highlight “the best of West Midlands’ creativity” this month.
Theatre Fever includes more than 30 shows by established and emerging theatre companies in Birmingham, the Black Country, Solihull and Coventry. Eight works are new commissions.
The organisers are Holding Space, a consortium of arts organisations comprising Birmingham REP, Black Country Touring, mac Birmingham, Stan’s Cafe and Warwick Arts Centre.
Coventry-based Talking Birds will stage We’re Only Here Today at mac on Tuesday and Wednesday (12 and 13 March).
Theatre Absolute’s Always is a ten-minute piece made for only 15 audience members at a time and will be staged in the Shop Front Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday (12 until 16 March).
Soul City Arts will premiere If Walls Could Speak at mac Birmingham—a story of how Sparkbrook has been a gateway into the city for generations of migrants—on Sunday and Monday, 17 and 18 March.
Debbie Tracey will stage Fades, Braids and Keeping it Real in hairdressing salons on Friday and Saturday, 22 and 23 March.
Award-winning Women and Theatre will première its new 15-minute play Something Out of the Ordinary in the Co-Op car park in Stirchley, Birmingham on Saturday, 23 March while Tin Box will invite audiences to meet Maggie, a woman with many stories, in pubs across Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country every day until 24 March.
There is even work for people who don’t want to leave home, with Bohdan Piasecki inviting people to navigate his digital city to find new poetry in Palimpsest City. It takes place every day until 24 March.
These new commissions will sit alongside internationally renowned Stan’s Cafe première of The Anatomy of Melancholy at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Friday (12 until 15 March) and Kindle Theatre’s presentation of its “rockchick” gig The Furies @ A E Harris, Birmingham on Saturday, 23 March.
Theatre Fever runs until 24 March at venues around Birmingham, the Black Country and Coventry.
Full listings are available at Theatre Fever’s web site.