Midlands productions

Published: 16 September 2012
Reporter: Steve Orme

Don Giovanni
Melvyn Hayes and John D Collins in You're Only Young Twice
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Co-Opera Co will perform the Mozart Classic Don Giovanni tomorrow (Monday) and The Magic Flute on Tuesday at the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton.

Ali Bastian is Roxy Hart, Stefan Booth plays Billy Flynn, Tupele Dorgu is Velma Kelly and Bernie Nolan takes the role of Mama Morton in Chicago at Stoke’s Regent Theatre from tomorrow until Saturday.

John Elkington plays Lady Augusta Bracknell (nee Fairfax) in Paul Doust’s Lady Bracknell’s Confinement in the Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse from tomorrow until Saturday while on the main stage he continues as Canon Chasuble in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest until Saturday.

Gary Wilmot heads the cast in the musical Radio Times at the Royal, Northampton from Tuesday until Saturday.

Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic stages a double bill of Lost by Jane Thornton and Found, written and directed by John Godber, from Tuesday until Saturday.

Melvyn Hayes, David Lonsdale, John D Collins, Katy Manning and Michelle Morris realise You’re Only Young Twice in Ron Aldridge’s comedy which opens the autumn season at Derby Theatre from Tuesday until Saturday.

Stephen Lowe’s adaptation of Robert Tressell's novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, which outlines a year in the life of a group of painters and decorators as they renovate a three-storey town house, will be presented by Townsend Productions at Lowdham Village Hall, Nottinghamshire on Wednesday.

Mark Whiteley’s new comedy I Love Nottingham, about an ordinary couple in an ordinary charity shop who are about to have one of the most extraordinary days of their lives, will be performed by Hard Graft at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal on Thursday.

Hull Truck Theatre Company takes Nick Lane’s “chilling new adaptation” of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to Buxton Opera House from Thursday until Saturday.

Northampton’s Derngate experiences ABBA Mania on Friday.

Harmony Productions performs Me, My Wife and Her Next Door starring Charles Tomlin, Lavern Archer, Katie Ryder-Richardson and Wayne “Dibbi” Rollins at The Drum, Birmingham on Friday and Saturday.

One hundred young dancers from the Wolverhampton area will join English Youth Ballet's professional principal soloists in Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake at the town’s Grand Theatre on Friday and Saturday.

Gun-for-hire anti-hero Bruce Bane, played by Joe Bone, returns to the Bridge House Theatre, Warwick, with two thrillers, The Beast Within and Welcome to Sunnyview, on Saturday.

The New London Opera Players presents Beethoven’s Fidelio at Lichfield Garrick on Saturday.

Professional performers, pool users and members of Corby Young Dancers will perform the site-specific dance piece SwimMorphosis, created by Northamptonshire-based choreographer Mickael Marso Riviére, in Corby East Midlands International Pool on Saturday.

Fragile, a one-man show featuring Craig Conway and written by Coventry playwright Geoff Thompson, continues in the B2 auditorium at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until Saturday while on the main stage a new musical about the life of T Rex star Marc Bolan, 20th Century Boy, continues until Saturday, 29 September.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre The Comedy of Errors continues until 6 October, Twelfth Night until 6 October and The Tempest until 7 October.

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