Midlands productions

Published: 12 August 2018
Reporter: Steve Orme

Catherine Dryden as Annie in The Play That Goes Wrong at Malvern Theatres Credit: Robert Day
Anna Mitcham in The Scarlet Pimpernel at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham Credit: Simon Cooper
Bally Gill as Romeo and Karen Fishwick as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Credit: Topher McGrillis

Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, Mischief Theatre Company’s The Play That Goes Wrong visits Malvern Theatres from Monday until Saturday.

The Classic Thriller Season at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham continues with its third play, Louise Page’s adaptation of Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel, from Tuesday until Saturday.

Ian Kennedy Productions takes Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers into the open air at Gloucestershire venues Cotswolds Discovery Centre, Northleach on Tuesday, Hillside Brewery, Longhope on Wednesday and Museum in the Park, Stroud on Sunday.

Chapterhouse Theatre Company takes a trip down a rabbit hole when it presents Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in the Arena at mac Birmingham on Thursday.

Experience Theatre Company experiences Peter Pan the Musical at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday.

Tall Stories’ adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s The Snail and the Whale swims into Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on Friday and Saturday.

A cast of more than 100 people from the community, Curve Young Company performers and Curve affiliate group Sidekick Dance continue to perform Joseph Stein’s Fiddler on the Roof at the Leicester theatre until Saturday.

Peppa Pig and her friends jump into muddy puddles in Peppa Pig’s Adventure at Buxton Opera House on Saturday and Sunday.

The Royal Shakespeare Company production inspired by Roald Dahl’s book, Matilda the Musical continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday 8 September.

At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack head the cast of Macbeth which continues until Tuesday 18 September, Romeo and Juliet continues until Saturday 21 September and David Troughton plays Sir John Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor which continues until Saturday 22 September (press night Tuesday 14 August).

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