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Built on its current site in 1805, the Theatre Royal Bath is one of the oldest working theatres in the country.
Theatre Royal, Sawclose, BATH BA1 1ET
Also home to The Ustinov Studio and the egg
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PATRICIA HODGE and NIGEL HAVERS
Who star in a brand new production of Private Lives, one of Noël Coward’s most effervescent and enduring comedies, which has opened at the Theatre Royal Bath where it appeared until 6th November ahead of a UK tour. ...
Review: BEGINNING at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★★ Boy meets girl, and seduction is the plan, but here the protagonists are around 40, and it is the woman who is the would-be seducer. The scene is the aftermath of a house-warming party in Laura’s flat,...
Review: THE DRESSER on tour
★★★★☆ Fine performances throughout and in particular the selfless and perceptive contributions of the two main characters make this a worthy reason to don your mask and get back into the theatre. ...
Review: ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ The doyen of domestic detail was bankable and apparently bullet proof. The never-ending swirl of class generated eddies in the social fabric were, and are, the subject of his and our constant fascinatio...
Review: CRIMES, CAMERA, ACTION at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ The play sets up camp in the film noir world of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and their ilk and is set in the seedy side of Hollywood during its ‘Golden Years’. With more twists than a cheese straw, some ...
Review: GROAN UPS at Theatre Royal, Bath
★★★☆☆ Mischief Theatre have struck a seam of winning theatrical productions based on the simple premise of letting the actors loose on stage to have some fun. So, credit where credit is due, the fun has crossed...
Review: PARADISE LOST (lies open beside me) at the Ustinov, Bath
★★★★☆ His method is to assume a kind of studied hesitancy which has an endearing quality that gives the impression of spontaneity. ...
Review: A SPLINTER OF ICE at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ Ben Brown’s play imagines the conversation that could have taken place at Kim Philby’s Moscow flat that cold and snowy evening, one in which Graham Greene seems determined to understand Philby’s mo...
Review: COPENHAGEN at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ At times Copenhagen is perhaps a little too pedagogic, and in the early stages of the play some expository passages are heavy-going. It is also, perhaps, a fraction too long. But it is an immensely abso...
Review: FOUR QUARTETS at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★★ I had imagined that a poetry recital, albeit one directed and delivered by Ralph Fiennes, would prove to be a relatively low-key return to live theatre. I could not have been more wrong, for there is much...
Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at Bath Theatre Royal
The set-up of The Play That Goes Wrong is that Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society is putting on a play entitled ‘Murder At Haversham Manor’ . . . It’s Agatha Christie colliding with Buster Keaton, and the results ar...
Review: OLEANNA at The Ustinov, Bath
★★★★★ David Mamet’s 1992 play seems doomed to be perennially relevant. In Lucy Bailey’s clear and pulsating production at the Ustinov it’s clear to see why. Whatever Mr Mamet’s intention at the time of...