Fans of both Puccini and contemporary engineering should flock to The Crescent Theatre next week to enjoy Midland Opera‘s production of Turandot and/admire a set, including this magnificent, fully functioning staircase, entirely made out of cardboard. How do we know about this? Fabrication has been underway all this week @AE Harris. It would be disloyal of us not to mention that The Merchant of Venice, the first production of new local company Fred Theatre is at our place also starting on Tuesday.