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The Midlands Essential Entertainment Guide Midlands Cover - July.qxp_Layout 1 23/06/2014 16:25 Page 1 MIDLANDS WHAT’S ON MIDLANDS WHAT’S THE MIDLANDS ESSENTIAL ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE ISSUE 343 JULY 2014 JULY www.whatsonlive.co.uk £1.80 ISSUE 343 JULY 2014 WICKED CASTS ITS SPELL feature inside THE DEFINITIVE LISTINGS GUIDE INCLUDING BIRMINGHAM WOLVERHAMPTON WALSALL DUDLEY COVENTRY BE Festival STRATFORD WORCESTER celebrating European PART OF MIDLANDS WHAT’S ON MAGAZINE GROUP PUBLICATIONS GROUP MAGAZINE ON WHAT’S MIDLANDS OF PART REDDITCH MALVERN theatre in Birmingham SHREWSBURY TELFORD feature inside STAFFORD STOKE Robbie Williams swings into Brum preview inside Wireless Festival debuts in the city preview inside gastronomic delight! return of the CBD Food Festival @WHATSONBRUM WWW.WHATSONLIVE.CO.UK @WHATSONBRUM What’sOn MAGAZINE GROUP ISSN 2053 - 3128 - 2053 ISSN News July region one.qxp_Layout 1 23/06/2014 12:16 Page 1 News A ROUND-UP OF LOCAL AND NATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Shobna Gulati serves up John Godber classic Former Dinnerladies and Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati is to star alongside Calendar Girls actor Joe McGann in a major new touring production of John Godber’s April In Paris. The Derby Theatre production of Godber’s bittersweet masterpiece features in a new autumn programme at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre, alongside a major revival of Tim Firth’s musical comedy This Is My Family (28 Oct to 1 Nov), Jerome K Jerome’s classic tale of boating misadventure, Three Men In A Boat (14 to 18 Oct), and Dreamboats And Mini Skirts (10 to 15 Nov) - a sequel to the hit ’50s musical Dreamboats And Petticoats. Commemorating the centenary of World War One, the theatre has also announced its plans to stage a brand new production of The Hundred Years War (31 Oct to 1 Nov). Fusing theatre and poetry, the performance Anita And Me to debut in the Midlands draws on forty war poems written between A stage adaptation of Meera Syal’s award-winning semi-autobiographical novel Anita And Me 1914 and 2013. is to make its debut at Birmingham’s Repertory Theatre next year. Syal’s story focuses on the For full details, visit www.belgrade.co.uk. experiences of nine-year-old Meena as she grows up in the only Punjabi family in a Black Country mining village. The novel is being developed for the stage by Tanika Gupta, and the show will be directed by The Rep’s artistic director Roxanna Silbert. Commenting on the adaptation, Wolverhampton-born Meera said: “I’m so thrilled that Anita And Me is being developed and premiered at the Birmingham Rep - in the West Midlands where I grew up, where the novel is set, and whose people and stories had such a huge influ- ence on my childhood. I know Roxanna and Tanika and the rest of the team will do it proud, and I can’t wait to see Anita, Meena and the rest of the crew come to life on stage. It will, I’m pretty sure, be ‘bostin’!” Anita And Me is scheduled to show at The Rep in Autumn 2015. International Dance Festival Playbox Theatre patron, her memo- Get moving with Motionhouse hailed a resounding success ries of Playbox. Leamington-based dance company Organisers behind the International Dance Sophie will also Motionhouse has launched a new initiative to Festival Birmingham 2014 (IDFB) - one of the participate in a keep youngsters and dance students active largest festivals of its kind in the UK - have post-show Q&A this summer. Under the direction of youth declared this year’s event a resounding suc- session with the leader Claire Benson, the company will facili- cess, with attendances to ticketed perform- audience at the tate two week-long courses focusing on cre- ances showing an increase of thirty percent Dream Factory, ativity, choreography and building confi- on the previous event in 2012. Warwick, on dence. The first course, the Motionhouse IDFB took place at various venues across Thursday 10 July. Junior Summer Intensive (29 July - 1 Aug), is the city in May. Featuring artists from eight- open to eight-to-twelve-year-olds and offers een countries, it facilitated twenty-one free youngsters the chance to explore acrobatic dance workshops and showcased nine Designer in search of moves and partnering, develop new skills world premieres. One of these was Concert local support and make new friends. Danse - a partnership with Quebecois con- The second course, the Motionhouse Youth temporary dance company Cas Public and Compton Verney has announced it’s to work Summer Intensive (4 - 8 Aug), is designed Birmingham early music ensemble Ex with leading landscape gardener Dan for fourteen-to-nineteen-year-olds and allows Cathedra. The production featured Aakash Pearson to develop a large-scale commis- those with a little dance experience the Odedra and dancers from Birmingham Royal sion for 2015. Linking to the Warwickshire opportunity to work on their skills and create Ballet. venue’s Arts & Crafts House exhibition next ‘dynamic and exciting choreographic materi- summer, the work will consist of a mown al’. Anybody interested should call 01926 parterre (a formally patterned flower garden) 887 052 or email [email protected] Game Of Thrones actress based on the designs of William Morris. The gallery is working with the Art Fund to returns to her roots encourage the public to assist the initiative Midlands actress Sophie Turner, best known through a new wave of giving called crowd- for playing Sansa Stark in fantasy TV drama funding. Compton Verney hopes to raise Game Of Thrones, is to make a personal £15,000 for Pearson’s ‘highly creative proj- appearance at Warwick’s Playbox Theatre. ect’, and is looking for people to pledge their Sophie, who can be seen in cinemas later support by donating anything upward of £5. this year alongside Samuel L Jackson and Each donor will receive a limited edition Jessica Alba in action-comedy Barely Lethal, reward as a thank you for their support. will talk about her role in Game Of Thrones, For further information, visit her career in film and television and, as a www.artfund.org/arthappens. 4 www.whatsonlive.co.uk News July region one.qxp_Layout 1 23/06/2014 12:16 Page 2 Ikon takes to the water A seventy-two-foot converted narrowboat is to embark on a journey along the Black Country’s industrial canal routes as part of an art initiative led by Midlands artists Juneau Projects. Involving members of the Ikon Youth Project (IYP), Black Country Voyages will see the Aaron Manby - leased from Sandwell Council - navigate its way along the canal route, stopping off at Cradley Heath, Tipton, Brownhills, Smethwick, Oldbury, Langley Green, Netherton, Brierley Hill and Stourbridge, where the IYP will present a series of work- shops, live performanc- es and exhibitions. Ikon launches www.blackcountryvoy- ages.org on Black Country Day (14 July), enabling people to track the boat’s jour- ney and find out what’s happening and where. Laura Mvula joins judging panel for music campaign Chamberlain Square to stage British premiere of art Mobo Award-winning singer Laura Mvula is An innovative work of art featuring five thousand figures made out of ice is to make its British the latest name to be added to the judging debut in Birmingham as part of the city’s World War One commemorations. The major exhibi- panel of B-side project, a major national tion, by award-winning Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo, is described as ‘poignant and moving’ music campaign by Visit Birmingham and will see the beautifully crafted ice figure sculptures melt in Chamberlain Square on 2 designed to create an ultimate top-twenty August. The event forms part of an urban intervention called Minimum Monument and follows ‘virtual album’ of tracks by West Midlands on from similar presentations in Sao Paulo, Havana, Tokyo, Kyoto, Berlin, Porto and Florence. artists. Birmingham-born Mvula will join fel- This latest project features the largest number of ice sculptures Nele has ever produced. low judges - including Horace Panter (The Speaking about Minimum Monument, Nele says: “Hundreds of ice sculptures are taken to Specials), Phil Etheridge (The Twang) and central places in cities and, with the help of passers-by, they are left to melt. The sculptures music journalists Pete Paphides and Matt are tiny men and women, twenty centimetres-tall and placed on stairways. The invitation from Everitt - in an event at Birmingham Town Birmingham refers to the commemoration of World War One and the celebration of the com- Hall on 9 July. As well as considering hun- mon man, which is close to the original concept of the work.” dreds of suggestions from the public, the panel are also champi- Wicked opportunity for young writers... oning a personal IN BRIEF favourite track using Birmingham artist Birmingham Hippodrome, the Library of Birmingham and smash- Twitter, where every- hit musical Wicked are on the lookout for Birmingham’s best one can join in the to exhibit in LA young writing talent. The three organisations are inviting children debate by following A Birmingham artist and young people between seven and eighteen to submit short, @Visit_Bham and who’s receiving much clear and captivating stories based on a subject of their own using the hashtag critical acclaim for his choosing. The storywriting competition is split into two age-relat- #BsideBrum. use of chalk and pas- ed categories (seven-to-eleven and twelve-to-eighteen). Two lucky tel to produce images winners (one from each category) will be rewarded with a depicting the search ‘sparkling emerald day’ courtesy of Wicked The Musical, which National award for for human perfection will include the chance to meet some of the cast at the Library of is to exhibit his work in Birmingham before taking their seats at the Hippodrome to see Midlands festival Los Angeles.
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