Midlands productions

Published: 13 July 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Noel Sullivan as Drew and Cordelia Farnsworth as Sherrie in Rock of Ages the Musical at the Regent Theatre, Stoke Credit: Manuel Harlan
Robert Lloyd Parry takes The Time Machine to the Guildhall Theatre
Stan’s Cafe and Billesley Primary School perform Any Fool Can Start a War at mac, Birmingham

Ben Richards and Noel Sullivan appear in Rock Of Ages The Musical, which visits Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Monday until Saturday.

Corby audiences will have the chance to see the results of an eight-month collaboration when the Corby Young Actors and Bread n Butter Entertainment from Mumbai perform Contacting The World On Tour at The Core at Corby Cube on Tuesday.

H G Wells’s The Time Machine is brought to life by Robert Lloyd Parry of Nunkie Theatre Company in a new, one-man show at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Wednesday.

Harold II and William the Conqueror do not see eye to eye when the Pantaloons stage their History of Britain in the open air at Nottingham Castle on Wednesday.

Four “world-class tango dancers” and live music from quartet Tango Siempre are elements of Tangomotion at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme on Wednesday.

Any Fool Can Start a War, a collaboration between Stan’s Cafe and Billesley Primary School which tells the story of the Cuban missile crisis and how Castro, Kennedy and Khrushchev lead the world to the brink of nuclear disaster, will be performed at mac, Birmingham on Wednesday and Thursday.

Leamington Spa-based Heartbreak Productions takes its outdoor show Peter Pan and the Lost Boys to Langley Priory, Derby on Wednesday, Brueton Park, Solihull on Thursday, The Old Dairy Farm Craft Centre, Northamptonshire on Friday and Charlecote Park, Warwickshire on Saturday.

Derby-based company Oddsocks, celebrating its 25th anniversary, is at Derby Theatre with a double bill of Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Thursday and Friday and Twelfth Night on Saturday.

A cartoon classic comes to life in Scooby Doo! The Mystery of the Pyramid at Wolverhampton Grand from Thursday until Sunday.

Northampton Royal and Derngate’s community group The Actors Company presents a contemporary staging of Sophocles’ Antigone on the Royal stage on Friday and Saturday.

A “21st century love story from one of the country’s finest young writers”, James Graham’s A History of Falling Things continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 26 July.

Wicked continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday, 6 September.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre The Two Gentlemen of Verona continues until Thursday 4 September (press night Tuesday 22 July) and Henry IV Parts I and II continue until Saturday 6 September while 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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