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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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IOLANTHE at the Theatre Royal, Bath
★★★★☆ Given the obvious fun Gilbert had satirising the House of Lords and party politics at the turn of the 19th century, it begged the question of what he might he made of Brexit or Trump’s White House? If h...
Thoroughly Modern Millie at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ There is much to enjoy in director and choreographer Racky Plew’s production: a typing pool rattles with syncopated rhythm; a dazzling ensemble in silver and black deco-inspired flapper dresses tap and...
The Case of the Frightened Lady at Bath Theatre Royal
★★☆☆☆ Back in the day, before well-known actors were ‘celebrities’, a producer with a bit of clout could persuade a star to risk their reputation on the road for six weeks. Prior to the rise in popularity a...
ART at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ From its first English run some twenty years ago the play has attracted strong casts; each character is allowed to run the gamut from indignation to pathos with a good dose of self-indulgent anger and s...
THE WHALE at the Ustinov Studio in Bath
Charlie is an online English tutor, living alone in a small Idaho town. Charlie is morbidly obese almost to the point of caricature. We are directed (we might say led by the nose) to the meaning of the metaphor that sit...
MARY STUART at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ When you have a couple of top drawer actresses each capable of playing either lead in such a play as this the opportunity arises for the added novelty of spinning a coin to decide which of the two will p...
AGNES COLANDER at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★☆☆ Written early in Granville Barker’s career at the turn of the last century and only recently rediscovered amongst his papers, this is a play that feminists could happily put on the shelf marked, ‘On ...
THIS HOUSE at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ Jonathan O’Boyle’s panelled set with the great face of Big Ben looming behind sets us firmly in Westminster, whilst the on-stage band locate us in time with songs from the period. All that was miss...
WINTER SOLSTICE at the Ustinov, Bath
★★★★☆ German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig’s play is clever on many levels. Most keenly it illustrates how easily fascism can slip under the door, seducing unwary mindsets with its nationalistic appeal, ...
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ In this Original Theatre Company production, director, Alastair Whatley, has gone to some lengths to put some differentiating flesh on the Wildean bones and steered his cast into some interesting charact...
CRIMES UNDER THE SUN at the Ustinov, Bath
★★☆☆☆ The show suffered from being under rehearsed and the actors looked uncomfortable at times, though by the time it goes on the road it will no doubt have the opportunity to tighten up and relax. What was w...
SWAN LAKE at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ The two principals, Mr.Vadim Lolenko and Ms Natalya Romanova have achieved a technical assurance with each other that produces, in their lakeside pas de deux, a filigree delicacy that perfectly matches t...