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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
Box Office: 01225 448844
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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...
Review: BETRAYAL at Theatre Royal Bath
★★★★☆ The play could easily be titled Deceit and the multiple betrayals, which pop out like nested Russian dolls ultimately leave little in the way of scar tissue beyond a kind of irritated bafflement that cer...
Review: ONCE at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ For those unfamiliar with the precursor to this stage version of a film by the same name, the plot is a simple one: how to mend a broken heart. The heart in question is that of singer/songwriter, Guy (D...
Review: THE CAT AND THE CANARY at Bath Theatre Royal
★★☆☆☆ This adaption by Carl Grose sets the action in the 1950s on a stormy Bodmin Moor and true to the melodramatic roots proceeds to bash the audience around the chops with plot details. If the dénouement wa...
Review: THE REALISTIC JONESES at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★★★ What is ‘realistic’ about these Joneses lies not merely their surface naturalism, but in the way that, in their desperation and in their need for each other, they speak movingly of our shared mortali...
Review: DIAL M FOR MURDER at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ ‘Light and airy’ could serve to describe the pervading mood, for this production of Dial M For Murder does not have darkness at its heart. In an attractive and nimble performance, Tom Chambers portra...
Review: FINAL EDITION – RICHARD ALSTON DANCE COMPANY at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ The final tour is made up of several newer works, remaining true to its origins by concentrating on classical pieces with the odd relatively contemporary one. ...
Review: GOD OF CARNAGE at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ Yasmina Reza is good at ruthlessly puncturing the pretensions of her characters, but her Darwinist vision offers little in the way of hope. God Of Carnage is very funny, but the humour is underpinned...
Review: GHOST STORIES at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ The Theatre Royal seems a very suitable venue for Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s Ghost Stories. Home to several ghosts of its own, including the famous ‘Grey Lady’, a phantom doorman and a ‘Thing...
Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ All the classic panto moments are here – sweets thrown into the audience, the audience singalong, the parish notices and four children getting goody bags onstage, before the inevitable marriage finale,...