Midlands productions

Published: 29 September 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Motionhouse’s Broken at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Wednesday until Friday
Formby at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Thursday and Northampton’s Royal on Friday
Eric and Little Ern at Buxton Opera House on Sunday

Jenny Seagrove and Sara Crowe star in Noël Coward’s champagne cork-popping comedy Fallen Angels at Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.

Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats visits Northampton’s Royal and Derngate from Monday until Saturday.

Matthew Booth performs Nick Lane’s Royal Flush, an account of Thomas Crapper, “the man who became Britain’s number one at getting rid of number two”, at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Tuesday.

West End singers and dancers take a journey from the MGM movie musicals of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly through stage classics to the latest West End hits in Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance at Buxton Opera House on Tuesday.

Richard Walsh, Peter Ellis, Stephen Beckett and Rupert Baker appear in the stage adaptation of Ellis Peters’s famous medieval sleuth in Cadfael: The Virgin In The Ice at Lichfield Garrick from Tuesday until Saturday.

Northern Ballet is at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal with A Midsummer Night’s Dream from Tuesday until Saturday and the company’s first ballet for children, Ugly Duckling, at 11AM and 1PM on Friday.

Blackeyed Theatre’s presentation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula “promises an exciting and thought-provoking theatrical experience” at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Wednesday.

The world première of Motionhouse’s Broken, which “examines our precarious relationship with the earth, luring the audience into a world of shifting perspectives”, will be staged at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Wednesday until Friday.

Translunar Paradise, a piece of “mask and movement theatre that was a multi-award winning sell-out at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011”, visits The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Thursday.

Ewan Wardrop looks at the life of George Formby, the ordinary man with an extraordinary talent, in Formby at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Thursday and Northampton’s Royal on Friday.

The John Godber Company and Theatre Royal Wakefield present John Godber’s comedy Teechers at Buxton Opera House from Thursday until Saturday.

Three contrasting works which are “some of the most popular, innovative and best-loved of David Bintley's output over the past 25 years”, Tombeaux, E=MC2 and Still Life at the Penguin Café, will be performed by Birmingham Royal Ballet at Birmingham Hippodrome from Thursday until Saturday.

Children’s theatre company Hoopla returns to Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre with its new show Three Witches, which runs in the B2 auditorium from Friday until Saturday, 12 October.

More than 40 singing extras and youngsters from Stagecoach in Solihull will take to the stage in Ellen Kent’s Aida at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham on Saturday.

Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 psychological thriller Gaslight continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.

Kate Tempest’s latest play Hopelessly Devoted continues in The Door at Birmingham REP until Saturday.

Seabright Productions presents a “moving, affectionate and fantastically funny homage to the greatest comedy double act that Britain has ever seen” in Eric and Little Ern at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Swan The Old Woman, the Buffalo and the Lion of Manding, a “storytelling and music performance for adults”, visits on Sunday, Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean comedy A Mad World My Masters continues until 25 October while Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus and Mark Ravenhill’s response to Voltaire’s Candide both continue until 26 October.

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