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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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HETTY FEATHER at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ Director Sally Cookson and designer Katie Sykes know how to create the visual spectacle required for this sort of piece. A circus theme resonates throughout as the acrobatic cast make use of ropes, silks...
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ Actors will either understand the style of acting required or they’ll find themselves unprepared by drama school and feel a little naked in terms of technique. All of which brings me to the delight on...
THE OPEN HOUSE at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★☆☆ All the ingredients look tasty enough; a talented cast, a director with all the experience one could want and an award-winning playwright. The designer too has a list of credits as long as your arm. And...
Rambert’s GHOST DANCES at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ Ever innovative, Rambert bring us a programme of three pieces with healthily varied subjects. Having rummaged around in the box marked ‘interesting things’ the three choreographers have produced a clu...
English Touring Opera’s GIULIO CESARE at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ This is an opera that demands impeccable technique of its singers and the ETO doesn’t disappoint. The bright sound required by Handel and provided by the castratos does present a problem for a modern p...
CHRISTMAS EVE at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★★☆ Christmas Eve is a timely reminder that, being jealous of our democracy, we must at all times remain vigilant, never assuming the arguments are being made for us or that those charged with protecting us ...
THE BEST MAN at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ If ever a political play had been crying out for revival this was it. It only needs a revival of Jules Feiffer’s Little Murders, which takes a satirical look at casual slaughter in America and the sur...
THE REAL THING at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ The play starts with a double dose of fiction – a fiction within a fiction; a fictional couple conjured up by a fictional writer whose fictional wife plays the fictional wife of...well you get the idea...
SALAD DAYS at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ The fantastical, whimsical device of a magical piano that makes all who hear it start to dance has no small element of a fairy story, but without the darker tones of, say, Hans Anderson’s, The Red Shoe...
THE LADY IN THE VAN at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ Sara Kestelman brought the role palpable belligerence, but also convinced with a performance that exposed Shepherd’s vulnerability and potpourri of delusions – where God and the Highway Code seemed to...
LOOKING AT LUCIAN at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★★★ The play is set in the artist, Lucian Freud’s, studio. At one point he refers to his great grandfather as being ‘the elephant in the room’, but for us in the audience that role is taken by the invi...
NORTH BY NORTH WEST at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ The show makes no bones about its cinematic origins; indeed it wears them on its sleeve . . . It’s all done with a brio and wit that sets the tone for the whole show. There is even a cameo walk-on of ...