What's on in the Midlands

Published: 10 July 2021
Reporter: Steve Orme

Jonathan Slinger (John) and Rosie Sheehy (Carol) in Oleanna at Malvern Theatres Credit: Nobby Clark
Hedydd Dylan (Adrianna) and Jonathan Broadbent (Dromio of Syracuse) in rehearsal for The Comedy of Errors in the Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Garden Theatre, Stratford Credit: Pete Le May
Macbeth at the Albany Theatre, Coventry

Tabs Productions tours John Goodrum’s play Father Brown - The Murderer in the Mirror, based on the mysteries of G K Chesterton, to the New Theatre Royal, Lincoln on Monday and Tuesday.

Theatre Royal Bath Productions and Jonathan Church Theatre Productions present Jonathan Slinger and Rosie Sheehy in David Mamet’s Oleanna at Malvern Theatres from Monday until Saturday.

London Classic Theatre tours Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular to Key Theatre, Peterborough on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Heartbreak Productions takes an outdoor adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby to Leamington Rugby Club (relocated from Hill Close Gardens, Warwick) on Tuesday and David Walliams’s Mr Stink to Barnwell Country Park, Oundle, Northamptonshire on Friday.

The last play in the 2021 Colin McIntyre Classic Thriller Season at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham is The Final Twist by Alfred Bradley and Ken Whitmore which runs from Tuesday until Saturday.

The Royal Shakespeare Company stages The Comedy of Errors in its new, open-air venue, the Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Garden Theatre, Stratford from Tuesday until Sunday 26 September.

Four actors from 440 Theatre perform a Shakespeare double bill of Macbeth, “condensed into 40 hilarious, breakneck minutes”, followed by an “outrageous and equally entertaining 40-minute production” of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Studio at the Albany Theatre, Coventry on Thursday.

Performer-writer Daniel Bye and singer-songwriter Boff Whalley explore their love of running in a new show, These Hills Are Ours, at Midland Arts Centre (MAC) Birmingham on Thursday.

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