Midlands productions

Published: 22 March 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

The Knights of the Round Table in Monty Python’s Spamalot at the Regent Theatre, Stoke
Krupa Pattani and Adam Samuel-Bal in Blood at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry Credit: Nicola Young
Geoffrey Freshwater (Friar Barnadine), Jasper Britton (Barabas) and Matthew Kelly (Friar Jacomo) in The Jew of Malta in the Swan Theatre, Stratford Credit: Ellie Kurttz

The Derby Theatre production of Penelope RETOLD, devised and performed by Caroline Horton, visits Embrace Arts, Leicester on Monday.

Salty Water and Us, “a play about the Lascar stories of Bangladeshi immigrants who had an aspiration of returning home but never happened”, written by Murad Khan, is at The Drum, Birmingham on Monday.

The National Theatre production of Simon Stephens’s adaptation of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time bounds into Northampton’s Derngate from Monday until Saturday.

Stoke’s Regent Theatre looks on the bright side of life as it hosts Monty Python’s Spamalot from Monday until Saturday.

Agatha Christie’s thriller The Secret Adversary which follows “the daring and dizzying adventures of Tommy and Tuppence through 1920s London” turns up at Northampton Royal from Tuesday until Thursday.

Meeting Ground Theatre Company’s new play Inside Out of Mind which delves into dementia care on a hospital ward tours to Curve, Leicester from Tuesday until Friday.

Stephen Unwin directs a new production of Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge for the Touring Consortium Theatre Company at Wolverhampton Grand from Tuesday until Saturday.

Arthur Miller’s first success, All My Sons, is a Talawa Theatre Company presentation at Birmingham REP from Tuesday until Saturday.

Opera North visits Nottingham’s Theatre Royal with La Vida Breve by de Falla and Puccini’s Gianna Schicci on Tuesday, Verdi’s La Traviata on Wednesday and Friday and The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart on Thursday and Saturday.

Ross Sutherland “attempts a daring experiment into synchronicity” using footage from one of his granddad’s video tapes to draw out his life story in Stand By for Tape Back Up at mac Birmingham on Wednesday.

Francesca Millican-Slater creates a new piece based on the letters sent between a group of six Shropshire women between 1917-1920 in My Dearest Girls at mac Birmingham on Thursday.

Newman University Drama Department presents Our Town, described by author Thornton Wilder as “an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life”, at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham on Thursday and Friday.

Claire Sweeney looks for Sex in Suburbia at Buxton Opera House on Thursday and at the Regent Theatre, Stoke on Sunday.

Dumbshow stages its new adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novella The Pearl, bringing it to life with its “trademark visual inventiveness, original music and playful theatricality”, at mac Birmingham on Friday.

Baroque Theatre Company performs House of Ghosts, the only Inspector Morse story written for the stage, written by Alma Cullen and inspired by the novels of Colin Dexter, at the Riverhead Theatre, Louth, Lincolnshire on Friday and Blackfriars Theatre and Arts Centre, Boston on Saturday.

A new version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, adapted by Theresa Heskins, the artistic director of Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic, continues in the Staffordshire theatre-in-the-round until Saturday.

A “radical new take” on Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding, a co-production between Dundee Rep Ensemble, Derby Theatre and Graeae Theatre Company, continues at Derby Theatre until Saturday.

Tamasha and the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry present Blood by Emteaz Hussain, a “21st century urban love story”, in the Belgrade’s B2 auditorium from Saturday until 11 April.

Northampton’s Derngate celebrates the Essence of Ireland on Sunday.

Dancer Brendan Cole promises A Night to Remember at Birmingham Symphony Hall on Sunday.

Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ The Musical continues at Leicester’s Curve Theatre until Saturday 4 April.

The Royal Shakespeare Company continues to stage Christopher Marlowe’s play The Jew of Malta in the Swan Theatre until Tuesday 8 September (press night Thursday 26 March).

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