Developed in collaboration with Autism Anglia, this is a piece that is touching, thought-provoking and humorous in equal parts. And suitable for anyone from 9 to 90! Emerging from an original short improvisation, writer Tommy Campe has worked with Colchester Arts Centre creatives and director Ollie Harrington of Found in Translation to create a piece… Continue reading Bring Back Chainmail
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Re:Imagining Musicals
If you love musicals, an exhibition has just opened in the Theatre and Performance galleries of the V&A that celebrates the musical with a display of items in the museum’s collections that will intrigue and dazzle and spark off memories. There are costumes and costume designs, set models, scores, technical drawings, props, posters and record… Continue reading Re:Imagining Musicals
What’s on in the Midlands
The “world’s foremost drag comedy ballet company”, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, dance into the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Tuesday and Wednesday and Buxton Opera House on Friday and Saturday. The Sheffield Theatres and Ramps on the Moon production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing visits Birmingham Rep from Tuesday until Saturday. Polly Teale’s adaptation of… Continue reading What’s on in the Midlands
Birmingham gala raises cash for work with young people
Members of the Birmingham Hippodrome team with Young Advocate Harvey Credit: Vivienne Bailey Nearly £10,000 has been raised for Birmingham Hippodrome’s work with young people at a gala evening—the first at the venue for three years. Guests were among the first to watch a new dance theatre production written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and performed… Continue reading Birmingham gala raises cash for work with young people
Brown Boys Swim
The last year in school can be a testing time in many ways and, if you happen to be Muslim in Britain, there is that extra difficulty of racism. Karim Khan’s generally upbeat, fast-moving play explores these things in what initially feels like a mildly amusing situation comedy but becomes more serious over its nineteen… Continue reading Brown Boys Swim
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
A hilarious and joyful evening in the newly named Tanya Moiseivitsch Playhouse at the Crucible is provided by Tom Basden’s adaptation of Dario Fo’s brilliant farce about police corruption. The adaptation brings the play up to date and places it in a British context at a time when incidents of police brutality, racial discrimination and… Continue reading Accidental Death of an Anarchist