Category Archives: Play

Exciting new play to premiere at Walsall MakerFest this weekend

Georgina and the Dragon will be performed at the Global Storytelling Village at the Bridge on Saturday at 3pm. The work will be produced and directed by Laura Liptrot and is supported by Poets Against Racism, Walsall Black Sisters Collective, Communities Against Racism Enterprise and AccessAbility Arts. Published Sep 4 Premiere of Georgina and the […]

Georgina and the Dragon to be performed at Mid Autumn Festival in Birmingham

Ian Henery’s exciting new play is coming to Birmingham’s own Mid-Autumn Moonlight and Lantern Festival  on Saturday 14th September 2024 and produced and directed by Laura Liptrot.  The performance follows the success of it`s performance  at the first Walsall Maker’s Festival on saturday 7th September. The Mid Autumn Moonlight Lantern Festival in the Arcadian Centre […]

Local Sitar Player Composes Music To Accompany Theatre Premiere For Walsall Maker Fest

The highly anticipated album “Non-Enslaved Minds” by Max Ravenhill is set to enchant audiences with it`s original sitar composition, crafted for Ian Henery`s play “Georgina and the Dragon”. This unique production, which celebrates diversity, anti-racism and female empowerment, will be performed at the Walsall Maker Fest on 7th September 2024 at 3pm in the Global […]

Georgina and the Dragon to Premiere at Birmingham Fest 2024

Georgina and the Dragon to Premiere at Birmingham Fest 2024

Rehearsals for the play, “Georgina and the Dragon”, produced and directed by award-winning Laura Liptrot,  commence on Saturday 4th May and will be performed at the Birmingham Black Box Theatre on 13th July as part of Birmingham Fest 2024.  The cast including performing arts students at BOA in Birmingham and from Walsall College. Birmingham Fest […]

Review: Ian Henery’s “Chinese Labour Corps”

Please note performances of Chinese Labour Corps have now ended. Chinese labourers were treated badly during the First World War but it’s difficult to think of any group that wasn’t, including the British Tommy. That is true, but equally true is that some were treated worse than others. On this Ian Henery and the Blue Orange Theatre’s […]

Local Poet & Playwright with SOLD OUT play on Eve of Commonwealth Games

The play, “Coming to Birmingham: Making of a Modern City”, written by Ian Henery, celebrates our diversity and inclusivity on the Eve of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.  An excerpt from the play will be performed at the National trust`s Back-to-Backs in Hurst Street in the Chinese Quarter of Birmingham on 25th July. The performance […]

Local Playwright To feature At Lichfield Arts Fuse Festival With Play About Birmingham

A local poet and playwright is to appear at the Lichfield Arts Fuse Festival on Sunday 10th July with words he wrote about Birmingham.  The play, “Coming To Birmingham: Making Of a Modern City”, has been in script development since April and has already appeared in the Walsall Festival of Words, Radio Public Festival and […]

New play on eve of Commonwealth Games

A new play is  to be performed at the National Trust’s Back-to-Backs in the Chinese Quarter of Birmingham on the eve of the Commonwealth Games. The play, Coming to Birmingham:  Making of a Modern City, is written by local poet and playwright Ian Henery and celebrates diversity and inclusivity in Birmingham. “The play has a cast […]