Midlands productions

Published: 27 October 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

Felicity Kendall and Simon Callow in Chin Chin at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Monday until Saturday
The Merry Wives of Windsor is at Buxton Opera House on Tuesday
Missing visits Derby Theatre from Wednesday until Saturday

Mind the Gap stages Mike Kenny’s retelling of Robert Louis Stephenson’s Treasure Island in the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on Monday.

Crissy Rock, Pat Dunn and Leah Bell, who also directs, play three cleaning women who start up a telephone sex line in Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood’s Dirty Dusting at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Monday and Tuesday.

Felicity Kendal and Simon Callow star as two people who have something in common: an affair that exists between their spouses in the bittersweet comedy Chin Chin at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from Monday until Saturday.

The Two Bit Classics and Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds’ production of Tim Luscombe’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park visits Northampton Royal from Monday until Saturday.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats purrs into Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Monday until Saturday.

Set in London’s Camden Town in the mid-1980s, the Madness musical Our House drives into Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre from Monday until Saturday.

Dani Harmer plays squeaky clean college student Janet in the 40th anniversary production of Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show which enters a time warp at Wolverhampton Grand from Monday until Saturday.

Thriller Live, which features the distinctive sound of Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, moonwalks into Derngate, Northampton from Monday until Saturday.

Derby’s Assembly Rooms reckons you would be “absolutely barking” to miss Joe Pasquale, Ben Langley and Andrew Fettes in Ha Ha Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles on Tuesday.

Creative Cow tours Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor to Buxton Opera House on Tuesday.

Opera and Ballet International presents an Ellen Kent production, Verdi’s Aida, sung in Italian with English surtitles, at Derby’s Assembly Rooms on Wednesday.

Missing, a “deliciously warped journey into the depths of the human psyche, told through powerful and outstanding physical dance” by award-winning company Gecko, finishes a leg of an international tour at Derby Theatre from Wednesday until Saturday.

Zest Theatre’s Gatecrash places the audience in the middle of a fictional teenage house party at Create Theatre, Mansfield on Thursday.

Eric Gracey’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde, set in the jazz age of the 1930s, should spook audiences at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday 9 November.

Rhum and Clay Theatre Company visits Embrace Arts, Leicester with A Strange Wild Song, a “fast-paced journey from the Second World War to the present day with comedy, performance, original music and a 70-year-old mystery”, on Friday.

Sandi Toksvig presents her “uniquely witty evening of stand-up, stories and fascinating facts” in My Valentine at Derby’s Assembly Rooms on Friday.

A new folk musical set "in the ticking time bomb of Northern Ireland in 1970" and based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Last Embrace is a Tree Shadow Theatre production in the Studio at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Saturday.

Adele Silva features in a new comedy send-up of the book 50 Shades of Grey called 51 Shades of Maggie at Buxton Opera House on Sunday.

Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane continues in the Studio at Curve, Leicester until Saturday 9 November.

The National Theatre’s production of War Horse continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 9 November.

The Nottingham Playhouse and York Theatre Royal co-production of Shakespeare’s Richard III continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 16 November.

Nottingham writer Michael Eaton’s new play about a Victorian criminal, Charlie Peace: His Amazing Life and Astounding Legend, continues in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade until Saturday 16 November.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre David Tennant continues as Richard II until 16 November.

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