Midlands productions

Published: 6 July 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Emily Tierney as Glinda in Wicked at Birmingham Hippodrome Credit: Matthew Crockett
Northampton’s Royal and Derngate Youth Theatre rehearsing Sweeney Todd which will be staged in the Royal auditorium
Oddsocks performs Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in the outdoor arena at mac, Birmingham

Peter Amory, Karen Ford and Michelle Morris appear in David Campton’s Carmilla, the final production in the summer play season at Wolverhampton Grand, from Tuesday until Saturday.

Twenty-two performances by theatre companies from 11 countries will be performed during the second week of the BE Festival at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.

Wicked follows the yellow brick road to Birmingham Hippodrome from Wednesday until Saturday 6 September.

LipService takes the audience on a “whacky whirlwind tour of Britain’s female national treasures” in its Hysterical Historical Show, part of the Lichfield Festival, in the Studio at Lichfield Garrick on Thursday.

Luke Kempner discovers The Only Way Is Downton in Lichfield Garrick Studio on Friday and Saturday.

Northampton’s Royal and Derngate Youth Theatre gets its teeth into Sweeney Todd in the Royal auditorium on Friday and Saturday.

Oddsocks serves up a “madcap musical treat” when it stages William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in the outdoor arena at mac, Birmingham on Saturday.

Shobna Gulati and Joe McGann continue in John Godber’s two-hander April in Paris at Derby Theatre until Saturday.

Former Coronation Street actor Eric Potts plays Touchstone and Only Fools and Horses legend John “Boycie” Challis is Jacques in the Stafford Festival Shakespeare production As You Like It which runs at Stafford Castle until Saturday.

Statistics Unavailable, consisting of four new pieces of writing exploring issues of human interaction, relationships and social dynamics, will be performed at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham on Saturday and Sunday.

Warwick-based Shakespeare Young Company tours The Comedy of Errors and George Peele’s play The Old Wives’ Tale, re-imagined as Old Wives’ Tales, to The Dell, Stratford on Saturday and Sunday.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, the Midsummer Mischief festival of world premières runs in The Other Place until Saturday, while in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Henry IV Parts I and II continue until Saturday 6 September and in the Swan Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl continues until Tuesday 30 September and Arden of Faversham continues until Thursday 2 October.

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