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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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Review: BLITHE SPIRIT at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★★ Is this revival of Blithe Spirit sufficiently engaging to make us to forget the B-word for a couple of hours? It most certainly is. From the moment the curtain rises on Anthony Ward’s magnificent set...
Review: VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★☆☆ The action takes place in an American farmhouse. Designer David Korins has created a convincingly detailed image of rustic comfort, with wood beams, a stone-flagged floor, and wicker furniture . . ....
Review: EDUCATING RITA at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ Willy Russell’s play is fast approaching its fortieth birthday. Back in 1980 this exceptionally witty two-hander made some trenchant observations about education and social class. A lot has cha...
Review: LET IT BE at the Theatre Royal in Bath.
★★★★☆ Let It Be aims to be ‘The Beatles reunion you never got to see’. The creative team behind this show has gone to extraordinary lengths to achieve a kind of historical accuracy that will appeal to any...
Review: MY MOTHER SAID I NEVER SHOULD at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ The play starts in a wartime waste ground. Four young girls gather to play out imaginary games. They like to scare each other with ideas of killing their mothers or summoning the dead or bragging about g...
Review: RIOTS AND LOBSTERS at the Ustinov Theatre Bath
★★★☆☆ Last year would have been Cornish playwright Nick Darke’s 70th birthday. Sadly, he died in 2005, but his works, particularly his plays produced by Kneehigh Theatre in the 1990s, which chimed so closely...
Review: CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ In Louis de Bernières’ epic tale of love and war set in the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Second World War, he seeks to make the social every bit as important as the political history. Within t...
Review: HOME, I’M DARLING at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★★ It is the story of a dutiful housewife whose day is filled with domestic drudgery, and a husband who appears content to have her attend to his every need. Yet he is by no means the villain of this story...
Review: THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ Often a central performance can hold things together. Samantha Womack who plays Rachel, ‘the girl’, is such a one, helped I’m happy to report by some sound supporting performances. Her portrayal ...
Review: THE OMISSION OF THE FAMILY COLEMAN at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★★★ The play is a rare stage picture of social deprivation that sympathises as it cruelly mocks, disturbing and hilarious by turns and acted out with excoriating honesty by the superb cast. ...
Review: EQUUS at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ When the curtain rises on English Touring Theatre’s Equus, a featureless stage is revealed, surrounded by tall, white curtains. It’s a sterile space, well-suited for the clinical examination of a me...
Review: STONES IN HIS POCKETS at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ The fun in this production comes from the instantaneous quick changes and deft characterizations which occasionally left one wondering who’s what where, so seamless were they. The show gives Bath audie...