Birmingham Rep announce Spring 2023 season
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Birmingham Rep have announced their spring 2023 season productions, including a brand-new staging of John Steinbeck’s classic novel, Of Mice and Men, directed by Iqbal Khan from 18 March-8 April 2023.
Of Mice and Men will then go on to tour to Cambridge, Malvern, Bath and Leeds, produced in partnership with Leeds Playhouse and Fiery Angel.
For the Christmas season, from 19 November 2022 - 7 January 2023, Nativity! The Musical returns home to The Rep for the first time following its world premiere in 2017, after several sold out UK tours and successive Christmas runs in London’s West End.
2023 begins with the world premiere of Spitting Image Live from 1 February-11 March 2023, directed by Birmingham Rep’s Artistic Director, double Olivier Award-winner, Sean Foley, and written by Al Murray, Matt Forde and Sean Foley.
The programme continues with a family-friendly Hull Truck Theatre production created by Luke Pearson and Tom Saunders, The Tortoise and the Hare, from 23-25 February 2023, in the venue’s most intimate space, The Door.
Co-produced by The Rep in 2019 as part of its first UK tour, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) returns to the venue the week commencing 17 April 2023, after a successful run in the West End which won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy. The show features a string of pop classics including ‘Young Hearts Run Free’, ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow’ and ‘You’re So Vain’.
After a sold-out run in 2022, RUSH: A Joyous Jamaican Journey returns to The Rep for a limited time from 26-29 April 2023, telling the story of Reggae music and the Windrush Generation. Narrated by comedian John Simmit, the show features ska, rock steady, calypso, gospel, lovers rock, dancehall and Reggae - all played live by the JA Reggae Band.
The Beekeeper of Aleppo, originally written as a novel by Christy Lefteri, winner of the Aspen Words Award and one of The Times’ top three bestselling books of 2020, sees its world premiere in a brand-new adaptation by Nesrin Alrefaai and Matthew Spangler (The Kite Runner) from 13-17 June 2023. This production, directed by Olivier Award-winning Miranda Cromwell, is an intimate look at the lives of Afra, an artist blinded by an explosion, and her beekeeper husband Nuri as the couple escape Syria for the UK.
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