Midlands productions

Published: 4 August 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Chapterhouse's A Midsummer Night’s Dream at two venues in the Midlands this week
Nottingham Playhouse Youth Theatre stages Lucy Prebble's Enron from Thursday until Saturday
Nigel Billing as Dracula in the Heartbreak Productions' show at Kedleston Hall, Derby on Saturday Credit: Chris Barrow

Francis Durbridge’s The Gentle Hook, the second play in the Classic Thriller Season, runs at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

Chapterhouse presents Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the open air at Cowley Manor, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on Wednesday and Whitmore Hall, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire on Sunday.

Ilyria performs Babe the Sheep Pig in the open air at Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire on Thursday and Friday.

Nottingham Playhouse Youth Theatre investigates how thousands of Americans lost faith in a system that rewarded those at the top while those at the bottom lost everything in Lucy Prebble’s Enron on the main Playhouse stage from Thursday until Saturday.

Stage Experience, a project at the Regent Theatre, Stoke which offers budding actors, singers and dancers the chance to experience what it is like to be part of a professionally run production, presents Guys and Dolls at the Regent from Thursday until Saturday.

Heartbreak Productions tours David Kerby Kendall’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula into the outdoors at Kedleston Hall, Derby on Saturday.

More than 50 youngsters will take to the stage of Wolverhampton Grand to sing hits from the musicals alongside professional performers in West End Experience on Sunday.

The touring production of Disney’s The Lion King continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 28 September.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre All’s Well That Ends Well continues until 26 September while Hamlet and As You Like It both continue until Saturday 28 September; in the Swan Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean comedy A Mad World My Masters continues until 25 October and Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus until 26 October.

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