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The Birmingham Repertory Theatre Ltd.
Centenary Square
Broad Street,
Birmingham B1 3AH
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DELIGHTFUL at The Door, Birmingham Rep
★★★★☆ The story revolves around Lenni, a woman who can hear voices on a daily basis. Her partner, Jay, is dead, and Lenni can’t remember how it happened. Through an exploration of recent events in her life, ...
NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL at Birmingham Rep
★★★☆☆ Tied together with artificial heart-string moments, Nativity! The Musical is entertaining and often amusing, but it comes across as obvious pandering and relies on the cast and crew to redeem it . . . Wi...
MAN TO MAN at Birmingham Rep
★★★★★ Tackling Karge’s play is no mean feat, and this production is an excellent example of how to make text like this work. This creative ensemble has an incredible amount of talent, and together they have p...
DUET FOR ONE at Birmingham Rep
★★★☆☆ After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Stephanie is unable to play her violin and unwilling to accept what her condition has taken from her. Persuaded by her husband, she visits psychologist Dr F...
A DANGEROUS WOMAN at the Door, Birmingham Rep
★★★☆☆ As one of six women in the family, Man struggles to maintain her own integrity when put under constant pressure by her parents and her five sisters. From career choices to relationships, nothing in her l...
THE WHIP HAND at the Door, Birmingham Rep
★★★★☆ The play revolves around a family reunion and the presentation that Dougie has prepared for his fiftieth birthday. Through the presentation, he unearths the family’s dark past as he seeks to gain the s...
Sally Cookson’s JANE EYRE at Birmingham Rep
★★★★★ Although this play is melancholic in many ways, Cookson has scattered comic relief throughout to counteract the heavy, intense aspects of the play. The lighter moments came in the form of Pilot, Mr Roche...
BE FESTIVAL at Birmingham Rep
★★★★★ This year’s theme for the festival is “Europe drawing the line: Physical and Imaginary Borders”. Many of the performance were looking at the borders that are being put up across Europe not only to ...
MY COUNTRY: A WORK IN PROGRESS at Birmingham Rep
★★★★★ The programme for a show never decides my opinion of a show. Rarely does it leave any impression beyond being a useful source for looking up cast and crew information, which can almost as easily be foun...
TO SIR, WITH LOVE at Birmingham Rep
★★★★★ In the interval, I thought that To Sir, With Love was going to remain as a fine, if unmemorable show for the remainder of its running time. But the first half was secretly masterful, as it deftly set u...
MK ULTRA at The Studio, Birmingham Rep
★★★★☆ Rosie Kay’s dance company is back with a new dance piece centralising on one of the biggest conspiracy theories of all time, MK Ultra. Mk ultra is the theory that the secret cult, Illuminati and the in...
ONE LOVE: The Bob Marley Musical at Birmingham Rep
★★★★★ One Love packs an awful lot into its running time, not only performing a greatest hits of the man’s music, but of his life: the break-up of the Wailers, his Rastafarian journey, his adventures in Engl...