Warwickshire Cover - March_Mids Cover - August 24/02/2014 17:01 Page 1 WARWICKSHIRE WHAT’S ON WARWICKSHIRE WHAT’S THE MIDLANDS ESSENTIAL ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE WARWICKSHIRE ISSUE 339 MARCH MARCH 2014 ’ JACK Whatwww.whatsonlive.co.uk sOnISSUE 339 MARCH 2014 WHITEHALL KING OF COMEDY IN THE MIDLANDS WARWICK DAVIS PART OF MIDLANDS WHAT’S ON MAGAZINE GROUP PUBLICATIONS GROUP MAGAZINE ON WHAT’S MIDLANDS OF PART talks about The Reduced Height Theatre Company interview inside... CANDOCO DANCE presents a triple bill of works in Coventry @WHATSONWARWICKS WWW.WHATSONLIVE.CO.UK @WHATSONWARWICKS MAXWELL CAULFIELD Singin’ In The Rain interview inside... wed 26 Mar - sat 19 apr 024 7655 3055 I www.belgrade.co.uk grand_whatson FP March_Layout 1 24/02/2014 09:16 Page 1 Great Theatre at the Grand! 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News March region one_Layout 1 24/02/2014 12:31 Page 1 News A ROUND-UP OF LOCAL AND NATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS RSC invites the public to share wartime memories Stratford’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre is on the lookout for members of the public who’re willing to share stories and memories of their family’s involvement in the First World War. In November, as part of the 2014 commemo- ration of the Great War’s centenary, the RSC is staging a new play entitled The Christmas Truce. Inspired by real events, the story is set on the Western Front on Christmas Eve, as soldiers leave their trenches to meet their ene- mies in No Man’s Land, to talk, exchange gifts and play football. Currently being penned by Phil Porter and directed by RSC Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman, The Christmas Truce will draw on the true stories of soldiers in the Warwickshire Regiment. Keen to enrich their understanding, Phil and Erica are appeal- ing for people from Warwickshire and the sur- Cape Town Opera brings Show Boat to Brum rounding region to step forward with their rec- ollections, and are hoping that an informal Following a much-acclaimed production of Porgy & Bess at Birmingham Hippodrome in drop-in event at the Royal Shakespeare 2012, Cape Town Opera is returning to the venue this July with a new version of Show Boat. Theatre on Saturday 8 March will provide Based on Edna Ferber's novel of the same name, Show Boat is one of America’s oldest musi- them with plenty of information. cals. Premiered on Broadway in 1927, it tells the story of the old American south by following Representatives from the Royal Regiment of the lives of performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire), a his- River Show Boat. torian who specialises in helping people dis- After kicking off its four-date UK tour at the Hippodrome from 2 to 5 July, the show then visits cover their family history, and a number of The Lowry, Salford, from 8 to 12 July; Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 22 to 26 July; and computers with relevant online resources will Dublin’s Bord Gais Energy Theatre, 29 July to 2 August. all be available on the day. Commenting on Cape Town Opera’s return to Birmingham, Stuart Griffiths, Chief Executive of Birmingham Hippodrome, said: “We’re very excited to be opening the first ever UK tour of Cape Town Opera’s Show Boat here at the Hippodrome in July. This is part of the theatre’s Birmingham’s New Street ongoing ambition to bring the city the best in international performance from the finest com- panies across the world. It’s another hugely busy and exciting year for us, with visits by inter- Station on the right track national companies in the spring for our Dance Festival, from St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Birmingham’s New Street Station has beaten Opera in the autumn for The Ring Cycle, and now, with this return visit after their great suc- off stiff global competition to make it through cess with Porgy & Bess, Cape Town Opera performing once again in Birmingham.” to the finals of the ‘best urban regeneration project’ at the world’s biggest property trade fair. The £600million renovation takes its Board of Directors. The Belgrade’s also public art project in Birmingham’s Erdington place in the MIPIM Awards 2014 final along- recently announced that acclaimed chil- district. London-based Rajkowska, best side three other finalists - London’s dren’s theatre director Tony Graham has known for Greetings From Jerusalem Battersea Power Station, Saint-Michel’s taken the role of Creative Associate. Avenue - a fifteen-metre-tall artificial palm Village in Paris and Kö-Bogen in Düsseldorf. Graham, who has a wealth of experience in tree installed in the city centre of Warsaw - The winner will be announced during the theatre for young people, will be tasked with recently completed a residency in Erdington, prestigious MIPIM Awards Ceremony at the building and maintaining relationships with during which she determined the concept Grand Auditorium of the Palais des Festivals, theatres and producers around the country, and nature of her new project. The artist’s Cannes, on Thursday 13 March. Fingers in order to raise the profile of the Belgrade practice focuses on ‘the body and language crossed... as a producing house and to explore the as the foundations of social relationships’. possibility of joint productions. Pollock, It’s anticipated that the Erdington project will meanwhile, has written extensively for TV, reach completion in May. including BBC2’s Attachments, starring David Walliams. Theatre Seeking poets in Lichfield... works include Too Much Pressure (also for the The Lichfield Poets, a group formed in 2006 Belgrade), and The Death for likeminded wordsmiths, is inviting fellow Of Cool, which, originally poets to submit entries for a new competi- produced for Hampstead tion.