Midlands productions

Published: 1 February 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

Knights of the Round Table in Monty Python’s Spamalot at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham
The History Boys at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
Hannes Lagolf in John at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry Credit: Hugo Glendinning

Theatre Ad Infinitum presents George Mann’s Light, a “wordless sci-fi thriller performed in darkness and accompanied by a pulsating soundtrack,” which was inspired by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden and the ensuing debate on state surveillance, at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate on Monday and The Core at Corby Cube on Tuesday.

Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace from Strictly Come Dancing take their show Dance ‘til Dawn to Stoke’s Regent Theatre from Monday until Wednesday.

The Agatha Christie Theatre Company, celebrating its tenth anniversary, tours one of the Queen of Crime’s most popular thrillers And Then There Were None to the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton from Monday until Saturday.

Eric Idle won the public vote, beating off competition from Michael Palin, Hugh Bonneville, Professor Brian Cox, Brian May and Michael Ball, to appear as God in 2D on screen in Monty Python’s Spamalot at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham from Monday until Saturday.

Celebrating its 20th year, Richard Alston Dance Company visits Buxton Opera House for the first time with a programme showcasing Alston’s choreography on Tuesday.

Sell a Door Theatre Company’s new production of Alan Bennett’s The History Boys tours to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.

Brian Conley plays the title role in the Chichester Festival Theatre and Cameron Mackintosh revival of Barnum which visits the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday 14 February.

DV8 Physical Theatre presents “a story that is both extraordinary and touching”, John, at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Wednesday until Friday.

An unauthorised parody written and performed by Gavin Robertson, BOND aims to shake but not stir the audience at the Old Library Theatre, Mansfield on Thursday.

Jeffrey Holland, Corrine Wicks, Tom Butcher, Sophie Powles, David Janson and Judy Buxton get on board Talking Scarlet’s production of Arnold Ridley’s The Ghost Train at Buxton Opera House from Thursday until Saturday.

University of Derby Theatre Arts presents Girls Like That by Evan Placey at Derby Theatre from Thursday until Saturday.

Let’s Hang On, a musical journey through the career of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, is Beggin’ for people to turn up at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Friday.

Moscow City Ballet visits the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham with two Tchaikovsky “big story ballets”, The Nutcracker on Friday and Saturday and Swan Lake on Sunday.

Physical theatre company WinterWalker premières its first major production, Three Keepers, a play without words for those aged eight and over, at Derby dance house Déda on Saturday.

Female impersonator Ceri Dupree is Fit for a Queen at Northampton Royal on Saturday.

Nottingham Playhouse continues to stage Forever Young, by Erik Gedeon and adapted by Giles Croft and Stefan Bednarczyk, until Saturday.

The Russian State Ballet and Orchestra of Siberia performs Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and The Nutcracker at Wolverhampton Grand on Sunday and Monday.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (Much Ado About Nothing) both continue until 14 March; in the Swan Theatre David Troughton heads the cast of Thomas Dekker’s Jacobean comedy The Shoemaker's Holiday which runs until Saturday 7 March while the world première of Tom Morton-Smith’s Oppenheimer, about J Robert Oppenheimer, known as “the father of the atom bomb”, also continues until 7 March.

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