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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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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...
DEATH OF A SALESMAN at Bath Theatre Royal
Last night we had a lesson in the value of an actor, that is, what an actor can bring to a script. Following the untimely death of Tim Pigott-Smith who was to play the lead role in Miller’s bitter bouquet to a lost wa...
THE MIKADO at the Theatre Royal, Bath
★★★★☆ In Sasha Regan’s production, W S Gilbert’s story is told as a kind of midsummer night’s dream of a boy scout’s camp concert party in which all characters are played by young men in shorts (the wo...
THE MENTOR at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★★☆ As with any Laurence Boswell production we enjoy the interplay of characters. Rubin looks daggers and spits blended scotch – being a malt man - and like any halfway decent spider knows exactly where t...
SHIRLEY VALENTINE at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ An anniversary is as good a reason as any for mounting a revival of a popular success. Willy Russell’s one woman hit is now thirty years old and re-emerges into a changed world that has made huge stri...
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★★ The National are at it again; knocking out a huge crowd pleaser with international appeal and bringing it home skipping as light on its feet as ever for a return national tour. I first reviewed the prod...
PLASTIC at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★★☆ This is comedy of manners toughened up for the twenty first century. The tone is set by Jean Chan’s bleak modernist set against which, like animals pacing out their neuroses in an old fashioned zoo, ...