Midlands productions

Published: 8 February 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Regent Theatre, Stoke
The Paradise Project in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
David Carr and Ben Cutler in Playland at Derby Theatre Credit: Pamela Raith

Based on personal testimonies from nationwide interviews, Broke, devised and performed by The Paper Birds which “considers pennilessness in an age of personal (and national) debt”, visits Guildhall Arts Centre, Grantham on Monday, Lincoln Drill Hall on Thursday and Stamford Arts Centre, Lincolnshire on Friday.

Tom Conti plays Juror number eight in the new UK tour of Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry from Monday until Saturday.

The National Theatre’s multi award-winning production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time visits The Regent Theatre from Monday until Saturday.

Third Angel and mala voadora imagine the history of the human race as a tower in The Paradise Project in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Nottingham Playhouse and Oldham Coliseum’s production of Erik Gedeon’s Forever Young, adapted by Giles Croft and Stefan Bednarczyk, gives a lesson in how to grow old disgracefully at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.

Physical theatre company WinterWalker takes its first major production, Three Keepers, a play without words for those aged eight and over, to Buxton Opera House on Tuesday, Embrace Arts, Leicester on Saturday and Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Sunday and Monday.

The Russian Ice Stars present Snow White on Ice, combining “gymnastics, aerial acrobatics, full stage sets and a wonderful score by Silvio Amato, creating a breathtaking and mesmerising experience the whole family can enjoy”, at Buxton Opera House from Wednesday until Sunday.

Third Angel examines our obsession with fame, fortune and celebrity in The Life and Loves of a Nobody in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Thursday.

Strictly Come Dancing’s Brendan Cole promises A Night to Remember at Wolverhampton Grand on Thursday.

Members of Northampton Royal and Derngate’s young company and The Actors Company will bring to the Royal stage a new play inspired by stories of Northampton during World War I in Daniel Bye’s Aftermath from Thursday until Saturday.

East Midlands rural touring company New Perspectives starts a tour of Athol Fugard’s Playland, which “provokes debate around intolerance and political extremism in the run-up to the 2015 General Election”, at Derby Theatre on Friday and Saturday.

Only Fools and Horses actor John Challis reveals secrets from the set and recounts anecdotes from his career in Only Fools and Boycie at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Saturday.

Brian Conley plays the title role in the Chichester Festival Theatre and Cameron Mackintosh revival of Barnum which continues at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham until Saturday.

James Dreyfus and Maureen Lipman continue in Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Harvey at Birmingham REP until Saturday 21 February.

Dominique Jackson continues as the mayfly in Only a Day, penned by German children’s author and illustrator Martin Baltscheit and translated by David Henry Wilson, in the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until Saturday 21 February.

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.

*Some links, including Amazon, Stageplays.com, Bookshop.org, ATG Tickets, LOVEtheatre, BTG Tickets, Ticketmaster, LW Theatres and QuayTickets, are affiliate links for which BTG may earn a small fee at no extra cost to the purchaser.

Are you sure?