Midlands productions

Published: 26 April 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

Belinda Lang as Aunt Eller in Oklahoma! at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham Credit: Pamela Raith
The Ladykillers at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Credit: Andrew Billington
Catrin Stewart (Bianca) and Matthew Needham (Duke of Pavy) in Love’s Sacrifice in the Swan Theatre, Stratford Credit: Helen Maybanks

Kneehigh Theatre takes Emma Rice’s new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca to Birmingham REP from Monday until Saturday.

Nottingham New Theatre and Lakeside Arts present Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Djanogly Theatre at Lakeside Arts from Monday until Saturday.

Talking Scarlet stages Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair at Buxton Opera House on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Wendy Houstoun dances into the Studio at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry with Pact with Pointlessness—“stand-up meets vaudeville eccentricity in this performance of organised chaos”—on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Belinda Lang and Gary Wilmot appear in the Northampton Royal and Derngate production of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! which tours to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.

The Watermill Theatre Company production of Agatha Christie’s The Secret Adversary visits the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry Tuesday until Saturday while in the B2 auditorium Strictly Arts Theatre Company presents its production Green Leaves Fall from Wednesday until Saturday.

The Inside Out festival continues at Leicester’s Curve with 2Magpies Theatre staging Ventoux on Wednesday and Thursday, Curve Young Company presenting The Accordion Shop by Cush Jumbo, also on Wednesday and Thursday, Leicester writer Alison Dunne’s Girls with Balls on Friday and Saturday and Chicken Dust by Ben Weatherill, the winner of Curve’s playwriting competition 2014, on Saturday.

Students aged from 11 to 18 at Buxton Community School perform Dare Dream Dance at Buxton Opera House on Thursday.

Jill Neenan and Avelia Moisey's two-woman revue Ifs, Buts and Babies which offers “a hilarious take on the highs and lows of being a parent” returns to Lichfield Garrick on Friday.

Blending storytelling, physical theatre, comedy and live music, Tamsin Clarke brings to life the “revolutionary, proto-feminist, underground spy and the beating heart of South American liberation” Manuela Saenz in Manuelita which is Upstairs at the Western, Leicester on Friday.

As previously reported, the 2015 First Bite Festival which features ten regional theatre companies testing new material will be staged at mac birmingham on Saturday.

The national tour of Thea Sharrock’s production of The Bodyguard continues at Wolverhampton Grand until Saturday.

Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre continues to perform a new adaptation of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw until Saturday.

Shakespeare Young Company, a division of Playbox Theatre, continues to present As You Like It and Macbeth at the Dream Factory, Warwick until Saturday.

Steve Thompson’s new play Feed the Beast which follows a new Prime Minister’s first 100 days in power continues in the Studio at Birmingham REP until Saturday.

Graham Linehan’s new adaptation of the classic comedy The Ladykillers continues at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday.

Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, presented by Nottingham Playhouse, Curve Theatre and Tom O'Connell for QNQ, continues at Nottingham Playhouse until Saturday 9 May (press night Tuesday 28 April).

Northampton’s Royal and Derngate and Shakespeare’s Globe continue to stage King John in the candlelit knave of the Holy Sepulchre Church, Northampton, marking the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, until Saturday 16 May (press night Tuesday 28 April).

The Royal Shakespeare Company continues to celebrate the centenary of Arthur Miller’s birth by staging Death of a Salesman in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford until Saturday while in the Swan Theatre John Ford’s rarely performed play Love's Sacrifice continues until Wednesday 24 June and Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta continues until Tuesday 8 September.

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