The Rep Beyond Birmingham...
We produce outstanding theatre in the heart of Birmingham. But when the curtain falls on closing night, that’s not the end of our story. You can see Rep Original productions far beyond Birmingham
Idiots Assemble, Spitting Image: The Musical
In The West End From May 2023
With a plot more improbable than the last year of British politics, world famous celebrities are thrown together as Tom Cruise is tasked by King Charles with saving Great Britain.
Rep Artistic Director Sean Foley directs this outrageous new musical simultaneously inspired and appalled by real events…
Of Mice And Men
Touring Nationally Until May 2023
This new production, directed by Rep Associate Director Iqbal Khan, focuses a 2023 lens on John Steinbeck’s affecting tale of the crumbling American dream.
See it at: Cambridge Arts Theatre, Malvern Theatres, Bath Theatre Royal, Leeds Playhouse
The Way Old Friends Do
Touring Nationally Until June 2023
In the late 1980s, two Birmingham school friends tentatively come out: one as gay, the other – more shockingly – as an ABBA fan. Thirty years later, they reunite to form the world’s first ABBA tribute band – in drag.
Mark Gatiss directs this laugh-out-loud comedy about devotion, desire, and dancing queens.
Tartuffe
On BBC iPlayer Now
Tartuffe has the gift of the gab. A spirituality. A certain aura about him, that comes only when you claim to have Allah on your side, hundreds of Twitter followers and access to the family’s bank account.
Eventually, the lies and deceit unfold in this wickedly funny Brummie comedy directed by Rep Associate Director Iqbal Khan.
The Play What I Wrote
On BBC iPlayer Now
‘Thom’ has written a play, ‘A Tight Squeeze for the Scarlet Pimple’. ‘Dennis’, believes that if they perform a tribute to Morecambe and Wise it will save their double act. But first Dennis needs to persuade a guest star to appear in the play what Thom wrote…
Rep Artistic Director Sean Foley this sensationally funny homage to Morecambe and Wise,