Midlands productions

Published: 5 July 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

James Marlowe, Cornelius Booth, Laurence Pears and Harry Kershaw in Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham Credit: Alastair Muir
Brian Conley as PT Barnum and company in Barnum at Birmingham Hippodrome Credit: Johan Persson
Greywing House at the Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham

Mischief Theatre Company’s “riotous new spin on a timeless favourite”, Peter Pan Goes Wrong is at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Monday until Saturday.

Birmingham REP's youth theatre The Young REP premières Grace Barrington's Me at the Zoo in The Door on Tuesday and Wednesday.

In The Hundred Years’ War: the Somme to Afghanistan, 35 poems are performed by three actors, each chronicling times of war and conflict, in the Studio at Lichfield Garrick on Tuesday and Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury on Thursday.

London Classic Theatre stages Alan Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends at Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

Brian Conley takes the lead role in Barnum at Birmingham Hippodrome from Tuesday until Saturday 1 August.

Playbox Theatre performs The Shadow Roads, “a journey into the mind of a young soldier struggling with the memories of the horrors he has experienced and the home he is fighting to return to”, at the Dream Factory, Warwick from Wednesday until Saturday.

Musical Youth Theatre Stafford stages Honk! The Musical at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre from Wednesday until Saturday.

A collaboration between Frantic Assembly and the people of Corby, No Way Back will be at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Thursday and Friday.

As part of Lichfield Festival, The Malachites presents Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at Lichfield Garrick on Friday.

The “Mistress of the Macabre”, Mary Beth Morossa, takes her second solo show, Greywing House, to the Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham on Friday and Saturday.

Lost Boys Productions’ homage to B-Movies and westerns, Revenge of the Gargantuan Poo Monster, flushes its way into the Guildhall Clubrooms, Derby on Saturday.

Opera North presents Wagner’s early opera The Flying Dutchman in the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Saturday.

The 25th annual Stafford Festival Shakespeare which this year stages Much Ado About Nothing continues at Stafford Castle until Saturday.

A courthouse comedy, You Are The Jury reaches its verdict at The Drum, Birmingham on Sunday.

A festival of plays inspired by the Staffordshire Hoard—the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork ever found—continues at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic Theatre with double bills of Theresa Heskins’s Unearthed and The Gift by Jemma Kennedy, with The Throne by Frazer Flintham and Chris Bush’s Larksong continuing until Saturday 25 July.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Hugh Quarshie and Lucian Msamati team up to play Othello and Iago in Iqbal Khan’s production of Othello which continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Friday 28 August and plays in repertoire with The Merchant of Venice which continues until Wednesday 2 September; in the Swan Theatre, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta continues until Tuesday 8 September and Volpone until Saturday 12 September (press night Thursday 9 July).

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