REVIEW: East Is East, National Theatre at Home ✭✭✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews East Is East by Ayub Khan Din – a co-production with Birmingham Rep now streaming on National Theatre at Home
Paul T Davies reviews East Is East by Ayub Khan Din – a co-production with Birmingham Rep now streaming on National Theatre at Home
Faustus: That Damned Woman Tour – Chris Bush’s new play will be presented by Headlong and the Lyric Hammersmith in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 2020.
The full cast has been announced for the European premiere of the stage adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini’s “spiritual sequel” to his global bestseller The Kite Runner.
We are pleased to bring you these first look production images for the Duet for One UK Tour which is now playing at Birmingham Repertory Theatre
The Quiet House, a blistering and honest new play by award-winning writer, Gareth Farr will be presented at the Park Theatre following its world premiere at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Jess and Dylan are in love. They want a family. That’s all they have event wanted. This ordinary couple find themselves on an extraordinary journey when they enter the world of IVF. Forced to fight for the family they so desperately want, they put their faith in science and their relationship through the ultimate test. The cast includes Michelle Bonnard as ‘Jess’, with actor and comedian Tom Walker, aka YouTube sensation Jonathan Pie, as ‘Tony’, Allyson Ava-Brown as ‘Kim’, and Oliver Lansley (Artistic Director of Olivier nominated company Les Enfants Terribles) as ‘Dylan’. Accompanying the production will be a one day Fertility Fest at each venue (Saturday 28 May in Birmingham and Saturday 11 June at Park Theatre) both curated by … Read more
The Touring Consortium Theatre Company and The Birmingham Repertory Theatre are to present a new tour of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Two migrant farm workers held together by a mutual dependence, a deep affection and an undying loyalty go in search of new beginning in the hope of attaining their shared dream: of putting together enough money to buy a small piece of land and building a home. No strangers to trouble, George and Lennie soon find themselves reeling from the fallout of an innocent misunderstanding which spirals out of control and leaves the two men, bound together by friendship, facing an earth-shattering climax. A story, raw in speech and action, full of heart and unflinching realism, it remains one of the most poignant statements of being human our contemporary theatre has produced. Of Mice And Men will be directed by Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s Artistic Director Roxana … Read more