Midlands productions

Published: 22 February 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

Daniel Betts (Atticus), Christopher Saul (Walter Cunningham), Jemima Bennett (Scout) and Ryan Pope (Bob Ewell) in To Kill a Mockingbird at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham Credit: Johan Persson
Posh at Nottingham Playhouse Credit: Richard Lakos
Bell, Book and Candle at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Credit: Andrew Billington

The Regent’s Park Theatre production of To Kill a Mockingbird, adapted by Christopher Sergel and based on the novel by Harper Lee, tours to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, from Monday until Saturday.

Mischief Theatre Company discovers that Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Royal, Northampton from Monday until Saturday.

Paul Nicholas, Colin Buchanan, Susan Penhaligon, Mark Curry, Verity Rushworth, Frazer Hines and Ben Nealon of the Agatha Christie Theatre Company perform the Queen of Crime’s popular thriller And Then There Were None at the Regent Theatre, Stoke from Monday until Saturday.

As part of a major new UK tour, Jon Lee is Tony Starr and Jimmy Osmond plays Sam Silver in Barry Manilow’s Copacabana at Lichfield Garrick from Monday until Saturday.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is reinterpreted by Jo Clifford and touring company Sell a Door as Jekyll and Hyde, a modern adaptation set in an alternative London of the future, which visits Mansfield Palace Theatre on Tuesday.

Birmingham writer and actor Tyrone Huggins’s play The Honey Man, a two-hander about a man originally from the Caribbean who lives in a rundown, isolated cottage and spends his days making herbal remedies, buzzes into Wolverhampton Arena on Tuesday and Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford, Lincolnshire on Friday.

Devised and performed by The Paper Birds, Broke, a “new, verbatim show that shares real-life stories from the front line of poverty and debt in the UK”, tours to The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Tuesday, the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton-on-Trent on Wednesday, mac, Birmingham on Thursday and Uppingham Theatre, Oakham, Rutland on Friday.

Meeting Ground Theatre Company’s new play Inside Out of Mind which delves into dementia care on a hospital ward is at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.

Blackeyed Theatre should be in a class of its own when it performs John Godber’s Teechers at The Castle, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire on Wednesday.

Selina Thompson invites you to her own version of a midnight feast in Chewing the Fat in the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry on Wednesday and Thursday.

A 40-strong group of young people are the cast, chorus and musicians in the Young Drum production of Bugsy Malone by Alan Parker at The Drum, Birmingham from Wednesday until Saturday.

East Midlands rural touring company New Perspectives takes Athol Fugard’s Playland to Lincoln Drill Hall on Wednesday, Thoresby Riding Hall, Nottinghamshire on Thursday, Bonington Theatre, Arnold, Nottinghamshire on Friday and Broadbent Theatre, Wickenby, Lincolnshire on Saturday.

Two actor-musicians portray the different sides of the 1972 builders’ strike in Townsend Productions United We Stand at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby on Thursday. (Hear writer and performer Neil Gore talk about this production on the BTG podcast.)

English Touring Theatre presents the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Thomas Middleton’s A Mad World My Masters at Wolverhampton Grand from Thursday until Saturday.

Talking Scarlet shows off its Table Manners, part of Alan Ayckbourn’s trilogy The Norman Conquests, at Buxton Opera House from Thursday until Saturday.

The first play by Birmingham-born Steven Camden, more commonly known as the performance poet Polarbear, Back Down, “a coming-of-age story that is both insightful and incredibly funny”, premieres in The Door at Birmingham REP from Thursday until Saturday 7 March.

Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre presents Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre from Thursday until Saturday 7 March.

All-male Shakespeare company Propeller takes its Pocket Comedy, a 60-minute version of The Comedy of Errors, to The Dream Factory, Warwick on Friday.

Storyteller Daniel Morden and musicians Sarah Moody, Dylan Fowler and Olivier Wilson-Dickson combine “live music, dynamic sound and captivating narrative” in The Forbidden Door in the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Friday.

Physical theatre company WinterWalker takes its first major production, Three Keepers, a play without words for those aged eight and over, to Lincoln Drill Hall on Saturday.

A new play from Coventry writer Marcia Layne, Bag Lady, a “hard-hitting and darkly comic one-woman play” which “celebrates the notion of the strong and angry black woman” can be seen in the B2 auditorium at Coventry’s Belgrade on Saturday.

A new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s award-winning musical Oklahoma! featuring Belinda Lang, Gary Wilmot, Ashley Day, Charlotte Wakefield and Nic Greenshields continues at Northampton’s Derngate until Saturday.

Nottingham Playhouse continues to stage the regional première of Laura Wade’s political comedy Posh until Saturday.

John Van Druten’s rarely performed Bell, Book and Candle continues at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic until Saturday.

Warwick-based Playbox Theatre stages the medieval mystery cycle The Mysteries featuring a trilogy of Creation, The Passion and Doomsday at the Swan Theatre, Stratford on Sunday.

Arthur Bostrom, best known for his portrayal as the vowel-mangling gendarme in ‘Allo ‘Allo!, returns to Lichfield Garrick to narrate the perils and pleasures of a long career in theatre and television on Sunday.

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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