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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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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 ...
Sand in the Sandwiches at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ John Betjeman was the nation’s favourite poet. Hugh Whitemore’s Sand in the Sandwiches celebrates the famous man’s life and work starring Edward Fox. Graham Wyles takes a sideways look at the play....
RACING DEMON at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ An interesting choice of play to kick off the summer season . . . It is a play, primarily of ideas, that whilst it may have lost some of its bite, has lost none of its depth, which in this production is b...
THE ADDAMS FAMILY at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ This touring version has some real strengths. Bathed in sepulchral purple and green light, the magnificently gloomy, Gothic set is far more substantial than that seen in most touring shows. Equally soli...
EMMA at Bath Theatre Royal
★★☆☆☆ Translating the inner to the outer is the challenge facing many an adapter of novels for the stage. Some things skip from page to stage whilst others have to be dragged, bullied and injected with variou...
FANTASTIC MR FOX at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ This is one of those shows, based on a familiar and popular story that will hopefully do a great service in developing a taste for theatre in a young audience. To that end the creative team have done a g...
FRACKED at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ Anne Reid as the accidental activist has the last word, delivered as a speech direct to the audience, casting doubt over the familiar pro-fracking nostrums and having by now fully un-retired herself fro...