Midlands productions

Published: 3 November 2013
Reporter: Steve Orme

I’m An Aristocrat, Get Me Out Of Here! is at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Monday
Balletboyz at Derby Theatre on Tuesday with The Talent 2013
Ha Ha Holmes! at Stoke’s Regent Theatre on Friday

An “inventive and gripping comedy featuring three fearless and daring actors playing more than 20 roles in 90 minutes of fast-paced fun and thrilling action”, I’m An Aristocrat, Get Me Out Of Here! is a Gonzo Moose presentation at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Monday.

Matthew Cammelle, Stephen John Davis and Glyn Kerslake who have all played the lead role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera become Three Phantoms at Buxton Opera House on Monday and Tuesday.

As part of its 60th anniversary tour Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap visits Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre from Monday until Saturday.

Balletboyz presents The Talent 2013, including pieces by choreographers Russell Maliphant and Liam Scarlett, at Derby Theatre on Tuesday.

At the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton, Rumpus Theatre Company serves up a double bill of The Ghost Ship!, a new play based on Joseph Conrad’s story, on Tuesday and Sherlock Holmes—A Study in Fear on Wednesday.

Four schools perform excerpts from four different plays in the Shakespeare Schools Festival, “the UK’s largest youth drama festival”, at Northampton Royal on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre will be shaken but not stirred when it hosts An Evening with Sir Roger Moore on Wednesday.

Playbox Theatre stages controversial drama Punk Rock by Simon Stephens at The Dream Factory, Warwick from Wednesday until Saturday.

Slava’s Snowshow returns to Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall to “delight and thrill audiences with its mix of comedy, poignancy and stunning spectacle” from Wednesday until Sunday.

Hotbuckle Productions performs Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield in Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre Studio Theatre on Thursday.

BEDLAM The Festival of Mad Ideas—which aims to demonstrate how the arts can play a role in reducing stigma around mental health and promoting recovery and wellbeing—continues in Birmingham, with one of the highlights being Stan’s Café’s presentation of James Yarker’s The Anatomy of Melancholy in the REP Studio from Thursday until Saturday.

Ha Ha Holmes! featuring Joe Pasquale as Sherlock Holmes, Ben Langley as Doctor Watson and Andrew Fettes as everyone else is at Stoke’s Regent Theatre on Friday.

New Perspectives Theatre Company and Curve Theatre, Leicester stage the world premiere of David Rudkin’s The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock at Derby Theatre on Friday and Saturday.

Trevor Rhone’s comedy Smile Orange which “has had audiences all around the world rolling with belly-busting laughter” visits The Drum, Birmingham on Friday and Saturday.

English Touring Opera is at Buxton Opera House with Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea on Friday and Agrippina by Handel on Saturday.

Little Solder Productions presents Roger Simeon’s physical comedy You and Me in Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre Studio Theatre on Saturday.

Two strapping Australians manipulate their genitals into various shapes, objects and landmarks in Puppetry of the Penis at Derngate, Northampton on Saturday.

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

The Northern Broadsides adaptation of Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide, which has the new title The Grand Gesture, continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.

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

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

Kiran Purohit’s Maari Honey-Ne Behave Money, a “farcical satire packed with loads of music and dance” which “pokes fun at materialistic aspirations”, will be performed in Gujarati at The Drum, Birmingham on Sunday at 4PM.

Moscow Ballet La Classique dances into Mansfield Palace Theatre with Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker on Sunday.

Birmingham-born actor Mark Williams makes his debut at the city’s REP in Moliere’s Tartuffe which continues until Saturday 16 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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