#birmingham rep theatre

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Young Ian at the time of the Birmingham Rep in Willis Hall's play, "The Long and the Short and the Tall". He was 25 years old and he played here a british soldier who fights against the Japaneses in the Malayan jungle during the WWII. A great shot by the official photographer of the Rep: Lisel Haas.

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Because we really just want Rob.

Robert Sheehan publicity shots source: @theatre_weekly on IG; Withnail & I at the Birmingham Rep; original full photos: (X)

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Saw "Withnail And I" play at the Birmingham Rep last night

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Press Review: STARS - An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey at The Old Rep Theatre

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Sinatra The Musical Arrives In Birmingham September 2023

Sinatra The Musical Arrives In Birmingham September 2023. Get all the news here #Sinatra #Musical #Theatre @Sinatra_Musical

Birmingham Rep presents Sinatra The Musical in association with Universal Music Group Theatrical and Frank Sinatra Enterprises Written by Tony Award-winning Joe DiPietro Directed and Choreographed by Olivier & Tony Award-winning Kathleen Marshall World Premiere at Birmingham Rep | 23 September – 28 October 2023 The First Official Musical to Focus on the Life and Work of Globally Recognised…

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Finally got to see Withnail and I at the beautiful Rep Theatre in Birmingham last night. It was a brilliant night and I loved every minute. While Richard E. Grant was born to play the part of Withnail, Rob was the perfect choice to fill his flappy-soled boots. ❤️

Didn’t hang around by the stage door as we needed to hit the road before the Take That fans let out and gridlocked the whole city, so Robbie’s curls went unmotorboated for another day. I’ll get you someday, Robert - just you wait. *shakes fist*

This will be my last Robbie outing for a while as I’ll be far too pregnant in July to travel to Galway for his next stage venture, so please enjoy this gif which got my husband in trouble with the usher for filming (whoops!) 😬

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THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION PILOT EPISODE CAST/CREW - PART TWO

BECKY WRIGHT - THRALLS/PHONE VOICE

Becky voices weird things. Her speciality is small children and demons, make of that what you will... She works across every medium. She played Nic Grundy in ‘The Archers’ for 11 years and continues to appear in regularly in radio dramas on the BBC. Recent credits include: ‘You Must Listen’, ‘Car Crash’, ‘Children of The Stones’, ‘The Battersea Poltergeist’ (Bafflegab/BBC), ‘Lola vs Powerman’, ‘Making Plans with Nigel’, ‘Mythos’ (Sweet Talk/BBC), ‘Barred’ (B7 Media/BBC), ‘Billie Homeless Dies at the End’ (Holy Mountain/BBC) & ‘The Waringham Chronicles’ (Audible Originals). For Big Finish she has appeared in many episodes of ‘Dr Who’, ‘Doom’s Day’, ‘Blake’s 7’, ‘Avalon’, ‘Unit: Nemesis’, ‘The Avengers’, ‘Star Cops’ and ‘Pathfinder’.ops and development sessions for countless new writing initiatives. She has narrated numerous audiobooks and amassed a vast and varied array of weird and wonderful dubbing, animation and computer game credits. On stage she has performed for The Being Human Festival, Nutkhut, The Birmingham Rep, Wolverhampton Arena Theatre, The Bike Shed in Exeter, Hampstead Theatre, The Pleasance and The Tricycle, amongst others. She has toured open air Shakespeare and performed a rep season in a lift shaft! She is very passionate about new work and has been involved in rehearsed readings, workshops and development sessions for countless new writing initiatives.

JESSICA CARROLL - NEWSREADER

Jessica trained at LAMDA. Most recently she played Disciple Z’rell in the multi-award-winning video game Baldur’s Gate 3. Other video games include Divinity: Original Sin 2, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, Elex, Spellforce 3, Dragon Quest XI, Unforeseen Incidents and Code 7. Jessica also voices Darcy the Driller, Riff and Jiff in the UK version of the Thomas & Friends cartoon.  Theatre includes Fence (Finborough); Fishskin Trousers (The Park Theatre, Finborough); The Broken Token (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, Lakeside, William Andrews Clark - Los Angeles); Quirks (Southwark Playhouse); Old Bag (Theatre 503); Ghosts (Battersea Arts Centre); Hellcab (Old Red Lion); Last Seen (Almeida); The Woman of No Importance (Assembly Rooms Ludlow); Taking Steps (Assembly Rooms Ludlow); Daisy Pulls It Off (Lyric Hammersmith). Film and TV includes Hotel Inferno, Polar, The Space In-Between, David & Olivia. Radio includes Life Begins at Crawley and The Future of Radio (Radio 4); The British Are Coming and Liberation Is Not A Recognised Protocol (Apple). Jessica has an extensive voiceover career in commercials, dubbing and the TV and film ADR circuit where she can be heard screaming, crying, doing the news and squawking down police radios in everything from Happy Valley to Bridget Jones.

LUKE KONDOR - ROBERT SWALES

Luke Kondor is a writer, creator, and the voice behind The Other Stories podcast, which has amassed over 12 million downloads. He was recently commissioned by the George A. Romero Foundation to write a Night of the Living Dead audio drama. Currently, he lives and works from a dining room table in the middle of Sherwood Forest. For more, visit www.lukekondor.com.

PART ONE: HERE

PART THREE: HERE

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*starts vibrating loudly*

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On December 27th 1904 J M Barrie’s play Peter Pan premiered at the Duke of York Theatre, London.

Writer and playwright J.M. Barrie was born on May 9, 1860, in Kirriemuir, Forfarshire, Scotland. After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1882, Barrie worked as a journalist. He published his first novel, Better Dead, in 1887. Barrie soon had a string of popular novels set in Scotland, including A Window in Thrums.

After having some success with fiction, Barrie began writing plays in 1890s. His play, Walker London, was warmly received. The comedy poked fun at the institution of marriage. He got married himself in 1894 to actress Mary Ansell, but it didn’t turn out to be a happy union and they later divorced.

Perhaps to escape his difficult home life, Barrie took to going out for long walks in London’s Kensington Gardens, where he met the five Llewelyn Davies brothers in the late 1890s. It was the brothers where he found inspiration for Peter Pan. Barrie would later become the boys’ guardian after the death of their parents.

The famous character of Peter Pan first appeared in the 1902 book The Little White Bird. Two years later audiences were drawn into the fantastical tale of the flying boy who never grew up and his adventures in Neverland with the Darling children. Barrie also wrote a book based on the play called Peter and Wendy, which was published in 1911. The book earned rave reviews from critics.

Barrie published about Peter Pan in five works in total, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, When Wendy Grew Up – An Afterthought, Peter and Wendy, and Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, the first publication of the script of the play.

Around 40 other stories have been published by various other people through the years along with four nonfiction works telling the stories behind the stories. Numerous comic books have also been published and there was a radio adaptation from the BBC in 1995.

According to wiki we have had 26 different stage plays about or eponymous boy who never grew up, the latest being only two years ago, Peter Pan: reimagined fro the Birmingham Rep.

Wiki says there have been 12 films, including the animated ones, and on the small screen in various guises, Peter has been explored 12 times.

The charm of J M Barrie’s character lives on in several video games and who knows how long we will continue to see Peter appear in years to come.

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Requests 2 - Withnail and I, Madness and Australia!

Adonis Siddique and Robert Sheehan in Withnail and I at Birmingham Rep. Photo: Manuel Harlan Nick Hennegan presents the second instalment of his Resonance 104.4fm request show, Literary London, featuring the music from the cult film Withnail and I, now a theatre show at Birmingham Rep��in Brum – he was spotted in Soho with the Mom of Madness lead singer, Suggs – and a request for a moody version…

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24 years old Ian performed in Fratricide Punished in October 1958, a Stage play by William Poel adapted and produced for broadcasting by Peter Dews. Loosely related to the Quarto version of Hamlet it stars Mark Kingston as Hamlet, Janet Hollander as Ophelia and Ian Richardson as Francisco, Jens and Leonhardus. I don't know how mum has got all these pictures. I know she started seeing the plays at the Rep in 1958. She has had the good fortune to see the very first Hamlets of Ian (1958) and Derek (1959)

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More shots of Withnail and I coming out of The Birmingham Rep

This time we even get a glimpse of Uncle Monty. Source: @theatre_weekly on IG

All the shots already released in prev post (X)

The cast:

“Robert Sheehan plays Withnail, Adonis Siddique plays Marwood and Malcolm Sinclair plays Uncle Monty. The cast is completed by Adam Young (Danny), Israel J Fredericks (Presuming Ed), Morgan Philpott (Wanker/Jake the Poacher), Matt Devitt (Farmer/Colonel & Band), Adam Sopp (Geezer/Policeman, Band & Musical Director), Sooz Kempner (Miss Blenehassitt/Policewoman & Band).” Source (X)

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Heartstopper Toetapper

BECOMING NANCY The REP, Birmingham, Thursday 17th October 2024 This updated version of a musical that first played in Atlanta in 2019 gets its first ever UK production at Birmingham’s Rep theatre, the same establishment that gave us the gorgeous What’s New, Pussycat? three years ago.  Can they pull it off again?  Have they another hit new musical on their hands. In a word: YES! We first meet…

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Lenny Henry's book takes to the stage at south London theatre

The Polka Theatre’s summer 2025 season will feature the world premiere of The Boy With Wings, a stage adaptation of Lenny Henry’s best-selling children’s book. Stage struck: comedian and actor Sir Lenny Henry is about to have his first book adapted for the theatre A co-production with Birmingham Rep, The Boy With Wings has been written for the stage by Arvind Ethan David and is to be directed by…

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