A number of major touring productions will visit Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre in the early part of 2020.
The season starts with the Old Vic staging of A Monster Calls, based on the novel by Patrick Ness and Siobhan Dowd. It won the 2019 Olivier Award for best entertainment and family show. It can be seen in Coventry from 3 until 7 March.
Going on its first UK tour, the musical Once, based on the 2007 film of the same name by John Carney, stops off at the Belgrade from 10 until 14 March and will be followed by Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers from 17 until 21 March.
Russian State Ballet and Opera House will present Verdi’s Aida and Bizet’s Carmen on 3 and 4 April.
Derbyshire-born Gwen Taylor returns to the Belgrade in the Original Theatre Company’s The Croft, a haunting new play set in a deserted village in the Scottish Highlands, from 15 until 18 April while African Caribbean theatre company Tangle will reimagine Ben Jonson’s Volpone from 16 until 18 April.
Birmingham Stage Company will be back with another adaptation of a David Walliams book, the story of Joe Spud and his filthy rich father in Billionaire Boy, from 22 until 25 April.
The latest UK tour of Stephen Daldry’s production of J B Priestley’s An Inspector Calls is at the Belgrade from 28 April until 2 May and Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular will delve into 1970s social climbing from 6 until 9 May.
Friendsical, an “irreverent but loving tribute” to the TV sitcom Friends, should raise a laugh from 26 until 30 May.
Telling the story of Henry VIII’s wives, SIX the Musical tours to the Belgrade from 2 until 6 June, and from 16 until 18 June, Shakespeare innovators Oddsocks perform their unmistakable treatment of The Comedy of Errors.
The full programme is available at the Belgrade Theatre web site.