No, it’s not a very original title. Sorry. Still, Birmingham Rep are continuing their wanderings around the city while building work continues in Centenary Square. Their next show is The Owl and The Pussycat at Birmingham Library Theatre.
After that is something extra interesting. They’ll be setting themselves up at their old home, The Old Rep Theatre, and the same cast will perform two plays whose runs overlap. The first (and longer running) show is Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest (9 Sept – 22 Oct) which is joined by a new production of Tom Stoppard’s Wilde-referencing play Travesties (17 Sept – 22 Oct).
There’s a bunch of other stuff happening around these two plays too:
As well as our usual post show discussions with the cast, there will also be readings of plays by Mark Ravenhill, W.S. Gilbert, Neil Bartlett and Carl Miller; pre-show talks from experts on the Dada movement, the life of Oscar Wilde and Lenin in theatre and literature; two curtain raiser events inspired by the shows and a youth theatre performance of an Anthony Horowitz play by The Young REP.
I think you’ll find the traditional hip-hop referencing headline is ‘Just to get a REP’.