Midlands productions

Published: 8 November 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

Imogen Sage as Mrs de Winter and Tristan Sturrock as Maxim de Winter in Rebecca at Derngate, Northampton
Greta Scacchi in The Glass Menagerie at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry Credit: Tristram Kenton
Nicholas Le Prevost as Sir Sampson Legend in Love For Love at the Swan Theatre, Stratford Credit: Ellie Kurttz

Kneehigh Theatre tours Emma Rice’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca to Derngate, Northampton from Monday until Saturday.

The 60th anniversary production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap returns to the Belgrade, Coventry from Monday until Saturday.

Celebrating its tenth birthday, The Agatha Christie Company takes the Queen of Crime’s And Then There Were None to Derby Theatre from Monday until Saturday.

Don Maclean and Malcolm Stent lead a cast of 13 in Brummegem Pals, “the story of two ordinary boys, their lives, loves and their families caught up in the horrors of war”, which visits Solihull Arts Complex on Monday and Tuesday, the Festival Drayton Centre, Market Drayton, Shropshire on Wednesday, Arts House, Stratford on Thursday, Dudley Town Hall on Friday and Pershore number8 arts centre, Pershore, Worcestershire on Saturday.

Adam Long, founding member of The Reduced Shakespeare Company and co-creator of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), performs Dickens Abridged, a “high-speed comic journey through Dickens’ greatest hits”, at Buxton Opera House on Tuesday.

“Hurtling through the classical ballet repertoire with their inimitable blend of skill, grace and wit”, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo dance into Birmingham Hippodrome on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Winner of 19 major awards, the National Theatre production of J B Priestley’s thriller An Inspector Calls pays a visit to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday.

Greta Scacchi and Tom Mothersdale will be joined by Erin Doherty and Eric Kofi Abrafa in Ellen McDougall’s production of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie, a co-production between Headlong, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and West Yorkshire Playhouse, at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from Tuesday until Saturday.

London Classic Theatre presents Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme from Tuesday until Saturday.

David Hasselhoff plays an extrovert, party-going DJ dad and nightclub owner in Ibiza in Last Night a DJ Saved My Life at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Wednesday.

Selina Thompson’s Dark and Lovely, an interactive performance using memories, music, rum and a “tumbleweave” installation to explore the connotations, history and politics of afro hair and “what it means to be black, British and female in the UK today”, checks into Birmingham REP from Wednesday until Saturday.

Akram Khan’s Desh, which was presented in 2011, has been adapted for children aged seven and over as Chotto Desh which dances into The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire on Thursday.

Coventry’s Warwick Arts Centre and China Plate stage Confirmation, “a show about the gulfs we can’t talk across and about the way we choose to see only the evidence that proves we’re right”, in Derby Theatre Studio on Friday.

English Youth Ballet gives Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker a “dazzling and colourful makeover” at Buxton Opera House on Friday and Saturday.

Four forgotten survivors of the infamous bird attack in Hitchcock’s The Birds appear in Birdhouse, a “surreal comedy horror by the joyously anarchic, Lecoq-trained Jimmy Voo”, in Derby Theatre Studio on Saturday.

Female double act Spitz and Co takes its new show Glorilla, in which French actress Gloria Delaneuf talks about her life-changing experience with the gorillas of the Kungalunga jungle, to the Studio at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Saturday.

Nottingham Playhouse continues to stage one of the most celebrated plays of the Jacobean era, John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, until Saturday.

Fol Espoir tours its World War II comedy Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain which “lovingly pokes fun at British eccentricities and the American troops who tried to understand them” to Swayfield Village Hall, Lincolnshire on Sunday.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Tom Turner and Nicholas Le Prevost appear in Congreve’s Love for Love which continues in the Swan Theatre until 22 January.

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