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A Tale As Old as Time…

This classic fairytale of two completely different people who fall in love in the most unlikely circumstances. There’s ups and there’s downs and there’s definitely love. Èdouard (Belle’s father) is lost in the woods. As we wonders deeper into the darkness, he comes across what seems to be an abandoned mansion. However, as he takes…

One Christmas Eve… First Play by New JQ Theatre Company

One Christmas Eve A new play by Edinburgh Fringe award-winning playwright Frank Bramwell. Christmas Eve in Birmingham . . . Mom’s battling desperately to buy last minute presents, Dad’s in the doghouse, and their daughter in London is really not looking forward to a Christmas Eve on her own . . . An amusing, touching…

Blue Orange Theatre | News for the New Year

The Blue Orange Theatre announces classes and courses for the New Year: Classes include Introduction to Acting, Improvisation, and Performance Combat. For details visit: http://www.blueorangetheatre.co.uk/adultevening.htm Fri 10 & Sat 11 Jan | Adult Bullying and its Consequences: Fact or Fiction? In Sept 2013 writers from across the country submitted scripts based on research in which members of…

Blue Orange Theatre: Jekyll and Hyde | 31 Oct – 9 Nov

The 31st October is the first night of The Blue Orange Theatre’s production of Jekyll and Hyde. Based on the classic tale by Robert Louis Stevenson the play’s adapter, Eric Gracey, has set it in the Jazz age of the 1930s and includes a mix of popular tunes of the day which in turn comment…

Christmas at the Blue Orange Theatre

This year The Blue Orange Theatre presents not one, but three folk tales for Christmas! The three stories, under the title of THE ENCHANTED TALES each around 30 minutes in length, will be presented as a complete performance. The stories are ~ RUMPELSTILTSKIN – a character made famous by the SHREK movie, Blue Orange goes back to the…

BE Festival: Fourth annual festival of innovative European theatre returns to the Jewellery Quarter

@ AE Harris, Birmingham, Various Times, 2nd to 6th July 2013 Twenty-three performances from twelve different countries will run alongside exhibitions, discussions, workshops and home-cooked food this summer, as Birmingham’s annual festival of European work returns to the city for a fourth year. With an emphasis on collaboration, participation and exchange, the performance programme is…

The Blue Orange Theatre presents Blithe Spirit (Fri 7 – Sat 15 June)

The Blue Orange Theatre has been open for two years and this is the first time that the company has presented a play by Noel Coward. BLITHE SPIRIT is possibly Coward’s best known comedy play having had many successful productions since it was first premiered in 1941. Described as an improbable farce it is about…

BE Festival seeking Hosts and Volunteers

Our friends over at the BE FESTIVAL are looking for Hosts and Volunteers to help with their event in July 2013. BE FESTIVAL is a Birmingham-based arts organisation dedicated to bringing high quality European theatre to audiences all around the UK, and offering valuable and innovative development opportunities to artists and young people. The ethos…

Some news from Blue Orange Theatre

Some news from the Blue Orange Theatre, which can be found on Great Hampton Street. Theatre of the Disenfranchised Blue Orange Arts, the registered charity at the Blue Orange Theatre, are celebrating after receiving a Comic Relief Grant through Birmingham and Black Country Community Foundation, one of the many funds administered by the Foundation which…

The Inferno Kid @ AE Harris

There’s drama to be enjoyed at local venue @ A E Harris. According to their website: ‘The Inferno Kid was once professional wrestling’s brightest star – a risk-taking daredevil both inside the ring and out. Today he is disabled, destitute and all but forgotten by the wrestling world. He is only 36. Now the living…