Playboy of the West Indies continues at Birmingham Rep until 2 July 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A barrel of laughs, many swigs of rum and a chopping great time. From the moment you step into the Birmingham Rep theatre, you are transported to the Mayaro Village. Life-sized palm trees […]
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First look at Birmingham Rep’s Playboy of the West Indies
Birmingham Rep has released a first look and listen to the music of the Playboy of the West Indies ahead of the new musical’s world premiere in Birmingham next month. First workshopped at the National Theatre studio in 2018, the musical version of Mustapha Matura’s critically acclaimed 1984 Caribbean-flavoured re-invention of John Millington Synge’s 1907 […]
Summer 2022 debut for Playboy of the West Indies at Birmingham Rep
The world premiere of new musical Playboy of the West Indies is among a number of further projects announced to mark 50 years of the Birmingham Rep on Centenary Square. First workshopped at the National Theatre Studio in 2018, the musical version of Mustapha Matura’s re-invention of John Millington Synge’s 1907 play The Playboy of […]
