Twitpanto – 23 December at 2pm Featuring: Paul Groves as Cinderella Nicky Getgood as Prince Charming With special guests: Tom Watson MP (West Brom) as Baron Tweetup Jemima Kiss (Guardian tech correspondent) as Baroness Tweetup, the wicked stepmother I’m going to be one of the ugly sisters. Follow @twitpanto on Twitter or check this Twitter … [Read more…]
To promote their Robin Hood panto, the Hippodrome have commissioned a flash game where you have to fire arrows at the Sherrif of Nottingham’s sneaky baddies (while not shooting the goodies). As Fiona at Audiences Central says, it’s a bit of fun “and people like to interact with something, rather than just having a marketing … [Read more…]
Dereliction, written by local playright Chris Cooper, has been touring the West Mids for the past few months and will get its last outing in a free community performance at Pegasus Primary School, Turnhouse Road, Castle Vale (map) on Thurs 11 Dec. Dereliction is a study of freedom in a climate of fear, alienation and … [Read more…]
As Nicky Digbeth says: I’ve been thinking ‘bloody hell, the Custard Factory’s busier than usual’. I suspect it’s not, it’s just that all the great stuff going on there is now getting posted on the blog. At the risk of labouring the oft-repeated point, blogging can help get you noticed. Anyway, hot on the heels … [Read more…]
Taken (wholesale) from the Arts Council’s ‘Arts News’ email. A venue doesn’t seem to have been set but it should be somewhere around Birmingham. The Theatre Lab is a place where theatre practitioners can experiment, and try new things, that perhaps they haven’t had the opportunity to practice in their day-to-day work. Each theatre lab … [Read more…]
8Sixteen32 is on at The Rep from 5-8 November. You’re invited “to follow the intertwining paths of five MCs as they go head-to-head in a fierce lyrical battle”. The Decypher Collective presented a work in progress back in 2007 but this here is the finished article. The collective: originally formed after taking part in huge … [Read more…]
I’ve just booked my tickets for this and can’t wait. Spoken word/hip hop lyricist Polarbear will be performing ‘If I Cover My Nose You Can’t See Me‘ will be at The Door from 14 to 16 October. See the vid to see what Polarbear‘s about: and here’s the flyer: I’ve heard a rumour about some … [Read more…]
Birmingham-based theatre group Little Earthquake will be presenting Gogol’s Madman at the Old Joint Stock Theatre on 24 October. Here’s the synopsis: Hounded by talking dogs and harassed by his plate-smashing mother, life in St. Petersburg is hard for Poprishchin until he falls truly, deeply…and madly in love. Little Earthquake presents an imaginative new stage … [Read more…]