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Highlights coming up at the Rep Theatre, Birmingham
April
His Dark Materials
April
Boeing Boeing
May
Serious Money
May
Looking For Yogurt
June
Once On This Island
June
The BFG
July
For You
   
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The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe at The Rep, Birmingham
THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE (in the Main House)
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Wednesday 26th November 2008 to Saturday 17th January 2009
Four young adventurers playing hide and seek in the country home of an old professor stumble upon an enchanted wardrobe that will take them to places they never dreamed of. Stepping through the wardrobe door, they are whisked into the spectacular parallel universe known as Narnia - a fairytale land of magical proportions where woodland animals talk and mythological creatures roam... Join us as we journey to the ends of the world with this timeless classic that children cherish and adults adore. Suitable for all adventurers aged 6 and upwards. A co-production of the original West Yorkshire Playhouse production, presented by them in 2004 and 2007. The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe runs for approximately 2 hours 30 minutes including one interval. Matinee & morning performances available at varying times. For full listings see our November, December & January calendar pages. No performances on Sunday. (back to top)
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An Inspector Calls at The Rep, Birmingham
AN INSPECTOR CALLS (in the Main House)
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Friday 30th January to Saturday 14th February 2009 - 7.30pm
When Inspector Goole arrives unexpectedly at the prosperous Birling family home, their peaceful dinner party is shattered by his investigations into the death of a young woman. His startling revelations shake the very foundations of their lives and challenge us all to examine our consciences. Epic staging, raw emotion and a sweeping score are just some of the ingredients that have made An Inspector Calls a smash hit all over the world. Winner of 19 major international theatre awards, this hugely successful West End production returns to The REP after its sell-out runs in 2003 and 2005. Matinee performances on Tuesday 10th, Thursdays & Saturday 7th at 2pm. No performances on Sunday. (back to top)
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These Four Streets at The Rep, Birmingham
THESE FOUR STREETS (in The Door)
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Thursday 12th to Saturday 28th February 2009 - 7.30pm
In October 2005 the rumour of a rape sparked disturbances in Lozells, Birmingham, that led to the killing of one man, widespread damage and a fracture between two communities that had previously appeared to be living happily alongside one another. Inspired by the views, hopes and fears of local people connected to or affected by the disturbances, These Four Streets is an engaging and hopeful play that highlights a community’s fight to stay together. A collaboration between six young female writers, These Four Streets explores the power of rumour and what it’s like to live in a place that has been written off. Commissioned by The REP, this production, supported by the Sir Barry Jackson Trust, will also tour regionally as part of our annual Door On Tour. Matinee performances on Saturday 21st, Tuesday 24th, Thursday 26th & Friday 27th at 1.30pm. No performances on Sunday. (back to top)
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Don John at The Rep, Birmingham
DON JOHN (in the Main House)
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Tuesday 17th to Saturday 21st February 2009 - 7.30pm
England, 1976. The Winter of Discontent. Cold hearts seek comfort and poor souls look for love. A woman nurses her dying father; a cleaner greedily devours her Open University course in the fight for a better life; a career woman seeks the path that her life never took, and the loyal friend, always in the shadows, fears he will disappear one day and no-one will notice. We are in the lonely hearts column of life. “Save me” is the silent call that drifts from their aching bodies. But wait. Help is at hand. Don John is here! Dangerous, naughty and irresistible, Don John is a vessel for all our desires – a delicious chancer. He enters our lives and leaves us changed. Oh yes, he leaves us, for Don John belongs to nobody but himself and The Devil! With a sensational score of specially commissioned music, Kneehigh bring their renowned brand of physical storytelling to this sexy tale. After their production of Brief Encounter delighted audiences at The REP last year, Kneehigh return to Birmingham with a new production that promises to be visually stunning, anarchic and intoxicating. Kneehigh are a driving force in contemporary British theatre. Their joyous, compelling and physical storytelling has entranced audiences throughout the UK with productions including Tristan And Yseult, Nights At The Circus, Rapunzel and Cymbeline. Matinee performances on Thursday & Saturday at 2pm. (back to top)
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Into The Garden at The Rep, Birmingham
INTO THE GARDEN (in the Centenary Suite)
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Saturday 21st February 2009 - 11.30am & 1.30pm
What lies beyond the wall is every child’s dream – a place to play, a place to imagine, a garden of delights. But this garden belongs to a giant, who doesn’t want to share and doesn’t know how to play. Inspired by Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant, this Language Alive! performance from The Play House takes children on a magical participatory journey beyond the ‘Keep Out’ signs... (back to top)
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The Hounding Of David Oluwale  at The Rep, Birmingham
THE HOUNDING OF DAVID OLUWALE (in the Main House)
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Wednesday 25th to Saturday 28th February 2009 - 7.30pm
May 1969 and the body of David Oluwale is pulled from a river. Eighteen months later, the investigation into his death will rip apart the police force, exposing the dark side of the shiny, new city in which he died.An optimistic, ambitious immigrant from Nigeria, David Oluwale was a showman who loved to dance, but who became the destitute victim of police brutality.Oladipo Agboluaje’s sensitive adaptation picks through the many accounts of Oluwale to reveal a chilling and resonant story of persecution and prejudice. Adapted from Kester Aspden’s critically acclaimed book, this timely, gripping play unravels the mystery of Oluwale’s life and violent death. Matinee performances on Thursday & Saturday at 2pm. (back to top)
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The Ugly Duckling at The Rep, Birmingham
THE UGLY DUCKLING (in The Door)
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Wednesday 11th to Saturday 14th March 2009 - 10.30am & 1.30pm
Spring is sprung, and Mother Duck is delighted when her eggs begin to hatch. But the last duckling to emerge looks nothing like his fluffy yellow siblings.
She loves him just as much, but the other animals pick on him because he is different. A new adaptation of the classic tale about one duckling’s quest to find the place where he truly belongs. Saturday performances at 11.30am & 2pm. (back to top)
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His Dark Materials Part 1 at The Rep, Birmingham
HIS DARK MATERIALS PART 1 (in the Main House)
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Friday 13th March to Saturday 11th April 2009
Lyra and Will find themselves embarked on a thrilling journey through worlds familiar and unknown. Their great quest demands a savage struggle against the most dangerous of enemies. They encounter fantastical creatures in parallel worlds – rebellious angels, soul-eating spectres, child-catching gobblers and the armoured bears and witch-clans of the Arctic. Finally, before reaching, perhaps, the Republic of Heaven, they must visit the Land of the Dead… Adapted from Philip Pullman’s three novels into two full-length plays, Nicholas Wright’s stage version of His Dark Materials was a triumph when it premiered at the National Theatre in 2004. This new production directed by Rachel Kavanaugh promises to be a truly exciting theatrical event. Both parts can be enjoyed alone or together on the same day. Dates & times of performances vary between March 13th & April 11th. For full listings, see our March & April calendar pages. Matinee performances are available. (back to top)
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Can Any Mother Help Me? at The Rep, Birmingham
CAN ANY MOTHER HELP ME? (in The Door)
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Wednesday 18th to Saturday 21st March 2009 - 7.45pm
An evocative, dynamic and touching new play, bringing to life the funny and often moving stories of a group of women whose lives became intimately connected through the simple act of writing letters. From marriage to childbirth, hidden desires to socialism, housework to wartime politics, the story of the Cooperative Correspondence Club delves into lifelong friendships and domestic tragedies and allows us an opportunity for that most human of pleasures, eavesdropping. Following the sell-out success of their last creation, Thatcher The Musical, Foursight Theatre, renowned for their distinctive style of ensemble theatre, turn from the epic to the everyday with a poignant production, featuring live music, which proves that there is no such thing as an ordinary life. Matinee performance on Saturday at 2.45pm. (back to top)
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His Dark Materials Part 1 at The Rep, Birmingham
HIS DARK MATERIALS PART 2 (in the Main House)
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Thursday 19th March to Saturday 11th April 2009 - 7pm
Lyra and Will find themselves embarked on a thrilling journey through worlds familiar and unknown. Their great quest demands a savage struggle against the most dangerous of enemies. They encounter fantastical creatures in parallel worlds – rebellious angels, soul-eating spectres, child-catching gobblers and the armoured bears and witch-clans of the Arctic. Finally, before reaching, perhaps, the Republic of Heaven, they must visit the Land of the Dead… Adapted from Philip Pullman’s three novels into two full-length plays, Nicholas Wright’s stage version of His Dark Materials was a triumph when it premiered at the National Theatre in 2004. This new production directed by Rachel Kavanaugh promises to be a truly exciting theatrical event. Both parts can be enjoyed alone or together on the same day. Dates & times of performances vary between March 13th & April 11th. For full listings, see our March & April calendar pages. Matinee performances are available. (back to top)
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Romeo & Juliet at The Rep, Birmingham
1ST CHANCE YOUTH THEATRE'S ROMEO & JULIET (in The Door)
Thursday 26th & Friday 27th March 2009 - 7pm
The pupils of St Catherine’s and Trinity High Schools have joined together to put on a dazzling production of Shakespeare’s most famous play, Romeo And Juliet.
But rather then forbidden love and feuding families, all hell breaks loose when the two schools go to war. Will they put their differences aside and make up before curtain up? 1st Chance Youth Theatre was established in 2007 by two young women from St. Basil’s – a charity for homeless young people. It was set up with the help of The REP and the two young women are partway through an apprenticeship at the theatre. (back to top)
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Can Any Mother Help Me? at The Rep, Birmingham
THE MOON, THE MOON (in The Door)
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Wednesday 1st to Saturday 4th April 2009 - 7.45pm
A man stands on the edge of the shore. He’s made Christmas dinner. It’s February. He’s going to walk across the water and apologise to his wife’s family.
And then he’s locked in a cellar, wearing someone else’s pyjamas. Upstairs, his self-appointed doctor and nurse say they can help him. Heal him. And the Moon, who has been watching him wander out of his mind with loss, sings to him, desperate for him to join her. The internationally acclaimed Unlimited Theatre’s new show is a haunting and darkly witty new play about loving, losing and beautiful new beginnings – lit by a singing moon. (back to top)
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Boeing-Boeing at The Rep, Birmingham
BOEING-BOEING (in the Main House)
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Monday 20th to Saturday 25th April 2009 - 7pm
When Boeing-Boeing took off to a roar of laughter in London’s West End in 2007, the Daily Telegraph called it ‘the funniest show in London’. Directed by Olivier Award-winner Matthew Warchus, this hysterical production has since taken Broadway by storm. Audiences and critics have been unbuckling their seatbelts and rolling in the aisles for this first-class Tony Award-winning comedy (Best Revival 2008). Bernard, a successful architect living in Paris, thinks he can easily cope with his three air-hostess fiancées. It’s all a question of timetables and a reliable, long-suffering housekeeper who reluctantly plays the role of romantic air-traffic controller. But when his long lost cousin Robert arrives, things start to get turbulent! Schedules change, flights are delayed and a new turbo-charged Boeing aircraft is introduced: chaos ensures in this whirl of mayhem and matchmaking. Starring Martin Marquez (Hotel Babylon, Dirty Tricks, EastEnders), Susie Blake (Coronation Street, The Victoria Wood Show), John Marquez (Hotel Babylon, EastEnders, Doc Martin), Sarah Jayne Dunn (Hollyoaks, Drop Dead Gorgeous), Thaila Zucchi (Skins, Love Soup) and Josephine Butler (No Heroics, Sorted). Tuesday's & Friday's performance at 7.30pm. Matinee performances on Thursday & Saturday at 2pm. (back to top)
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Security at The Rep, Birmingham
SECURITY (in The Door)
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Wednesday 22nd to Friday 24th April 2009 - 7.45pm
This comical and moving tale of unexpected friendship confronts the issues of security and identity through a fusion of performance poetry, theatre, movement and song. Set within the beating heart of London, the chaotic stories of five characters in crisis are exposed through the eye of a camera. What happens when one generation collides with another and cultural expectations clash? Does the flash of a blade in broad daylight mean the end or the beginning of Security? Find out when age and youth battle as Palestine meets Peckham. Zena Edwards takes storytelling into the twenty-first century. (back to top)
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I've Lost My Head at The Rep, Birmingham
I'VE LOST MY HEAD (in The Door)
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Saturday 25th April 2009 - 11.30am, 1.30pm & 3pm
Once upon a time, Daisy had a head. Now, she has lost it. Her head has gone on one adventure while her body has gone on a very different one… Join Daisy as she travels through worlds of sounds, sights, feelings and movement, meeting some strange characters along the way. Will they put Daisy together again?
I’ve Lost My Head is a fascinating adventure into the human mind and body, drawing upon animation, sound and puppetry to take its audience deep into a rich and meaningful experience. (back to top)
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Serious Money at The Rep, Birmingham
SERIOUS MONEY (in the Main House)
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Friday 8th to Saturday 23rd May 2009 - 7.30pm
As Britain’s financial turmoil dominates the headlines we step back to 1987 when the financial world came tumbling down with the Wall Street crash. Caryl Churchill’s play Serious Money takes a look at the ruthless world of corporate finance and City greed. The Big Bang has changed the City. The square mile has been invaded by white knights and corporate raiders. Hot-shot dealer Billy Corman is plotting to take over the unsuspecting company Albion, aided and abetted by the new breed of yuppie traders. But their plans go awry when trader Jake Todd is found dead and the Department of Trade and Industry is brought in to investigate. Full of satire and humour, Serious Money conveys the hectic excitement and the moral danger of financial risk bringing to life the swaggering, foul mouthed yuppies of the 80s. A major force in British theatre, Caryl Churchill is one of the greatest and most celebrated playwrights of her generation. Her plays include Cloud Nine, Top Girls and A Number, which fast became one of the 21st century’s most acclaimed plays. Serious Money received its World Premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in 1987 after which it enjoyed runs in the West End and on Broadway. Matinee performances on Saturday 16th & Thursday 21st at 2pm. (back to top)
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