Midlands productions

Published: 13 January 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Cooped at Northampton Royal from Tuesday until Saturday
Guy Masterson who takes his one-man show Animal Farm to Buxton Opera House on Wednesday
The Night Queen at the Belgrade, Coventry from Friday until 26 January

Spymonkey offers a chance to catch the comedy Cooped at Northampton Royal from Tuesday until Saturday.

Salida Productions and the Mercury Theatre take Mayakovsky: The Slanting Rain, their drama based on the life of Vladimir Mayakovsky, poet, political artist, playwright and leading figure in the Russian Futurist Movement, to the Ferguson Room at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

A new adaptation of Anton Checkhov's Uncle Vanya by Michael Kenneth Stewart, who also plays Vanya, which “aims to make Checkhov more accessible to everyone”, continues at Derby’s Guildhall from Tuesday until Friday.

Guy Masterson’s solo adaptation and performance of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, which is on its final UK tour, stops off at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.

Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre hosts An Evening of Burlesque on Friday.

Inspired by Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Hoopla Productions’ family music show The Night Queen returns to the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre from Friday until Saturday 26 January.

Olivier Award winner Janie Dee continues in Hello, Dolly! at Curve, Leicester until Saturday.

Kenneth Alan Taylor’s 29th panto for Nottingham Playhouse, Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood, continues until Saturday.

Birmingham REP’s production of Alan Bennett’s stage adaptation of The Wind in the Willows continues at the Crescent Theatre, Sheepcote Street, Birmingham until Saturday.

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.

Co-Opera Co presents Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel at Buxton Opera House next Sunday.

Brian Conley continues in “Britain’s biggest pantomime”, Robinson Crusoe and the Caribbean Pirates, at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 27 January.

Roald Dahl's first children's book James and the Giant Peach continues at Birmingham Old Rep until Saturday 2 February.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, The Orphan of Zhao continues in the Swan until Thursday 28 March while the world premiere of Adrian Mitchell’s adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's play Boris Godunov continues until Saturday 30 March.

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