Midlands productions

Published: 6 October 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Go Back For Murder is at Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday
Remmi Miller as Melody in Melody Loses Her Mojo which is in the Studio at Curve, Leicester from Tuesday until Saturday Credit: Robert Day
Cissie and Ada – An Hysterical Rectomy is at Buxton Opera House on Wednesday

Moscow Ballet—La Classique makes another of its regular visits to Buxton Opera House with Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty on Monday.

John Ginman’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula which “blends Victorian gothic with the contemporary” will be presented by Blackeyed Theatre at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton from Monday until Wednesday and at Buxton Opera House on Friday.

Dani Harmer, Philip Franks and Rhydian appear in the 40th anniversary production of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show at Curve, Leicester from Monday until Saturday.

Set against the backdrop of London’s West End in the ‘60s, the musical Carnaby Street visits Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Monday until Saturday.

Celebrating the centenary of composer Benjamin Britten, Richard Alston Dance Company revives Illuminations along with The Devil in the Detail, performed to Scott Joplin rags, and Buzzing Round the Hunisuccle at Derngate, Northampton on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Liza Goddard, Sophie Ward, Robert Duncan, Gary Mavers, Lysette Anthony and Ben Nealon from the Agatha Christie Theatre Company Go Back For Murder at Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich production of Tim Firth’s Our House, which features music and lyrics by Madness, drives into Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Tuesday until Saturday.

Leicester’s Curve has joined forces with 20 Stories High and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse to co-produce a new play, Melody Loses Her Mojo, which plays in the Studio at Curve from Tuesday until Saturday.

Birmingham Royal Ballet stages Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday.

Olga Sharutenko and The Imperial Ice Stars perform The Sleeping Beauty on Ice at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham from Tuesday until Saturday.

Adapted from Terry Deary’s award-wining Horrible Histories books and exploring the Roman Empire from the evil emperors to the gruesome gladiators, Ruthless Romans rampages into The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham from Tuesday until Saturday 19 October.

A new comedy based on Les Dawson’s TV characters, Graham Warrener’s Cissie and Ada—An Hysterical Rectomy, which features former Coronation Street actors Eric Potts and Steven Arnold, visits Buxton Opera House on Wednesday.

Reform Theatre Company in association with Harrogate Theatre is on the road with Stand, a comedy about football, lads, girls and Saturday nights out, at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre on Wednesday.

Page-2-Stage, “committed to producing daring yet accessible versions of classic works”, takes Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to the Pavilion Arts Centre Studio Theatre, Buxton on Wednesday.

Paines Plough tours Kate Tempest’s latest play Hopelessly Devoted to the Theatre on the Steps, Bridgnorth, Shropshire on Wednesday, Wolverhampton’s Arena Theatre on Thursday and The Hive, Worcester on Friday.

The Chisinau National Opera and Nation Philharmonic perform Verdi’s Aida, sung in Italian with English surtitles, at Buxton Opera House on Thursday.

The arena tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar is at Nottingham’s Capital FM Arena on Thursday.

Catherine Shipton appears in the Jermyn Street Theatre production of Sarah Daniels’ Soldiers’ Wives at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Thursday.

The Reduced Shakespeare Company romps through The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Friday.

A “unique and inspirational production that shines a light on untold stories and experiences of African-Caribbean UK immigrants of the 1940s’ ‘Windrush era’, Sorry! No Coloureds, No Irish, No Dogs will be performed at The Drum, Birmingham on Friday.

Sonia Sabri Dance Company’s Jugni “illuminates personal experiences, contributed by women from all over the UK, through intricate play of movement, rhythm and rhyme” at mac, Birmingham on Friday.

The première reading of Alan Bennett’s lost, unproduced play for television, Denmark Hill, a black comedy set in south east London, will be given in the Studio at Birmingham REP at 5:30PM on Friday.

Rumpus Theatre Company stages a double bill at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre, John Goodrum's new play Sherlock Holmes—A Study in Fear on Friday and a play based on Joseph Conrad's sea story The Ghost Ship on Saturday.

R M Lloyd Parry performs two ghost stories by M R James, Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook and The Mezzotint in the Pauper’s Pit Theatre, Buxton on Friday and Saturday.

Three Witches, a new show by children’s theatre company Hoopla, continues in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre until Saturday.

Red Earth Theatre and mac Birmingham present “an action-packed adventure for the whole family” in Emil and the Detectives at mac on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

Mid Wales Opera returns to Mansfield Palace Theatre to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten when it performs Albert Herring on Sunday.

Martin Shaw, Robert Vaughn, Jeff Fahey and Nick Moran continue in Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men at Birmingham REP until Saturday 19 October (press night Tuesday 8 October).

Michael Eaton’s new play about “the greatest celebrity villain of the Victorian age”, Charlie Peace: His Amazing Life and Astounding Legend continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 19 October.

One Night in November, Coventry Belgrade Theatre’s play about a family’s harrowing experience of the blitz, which is being staged in the city for the fourth time, continues until Saturday 19 October.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Swan 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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