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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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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, ...
THE MISER at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★★ Doing the classics can be a bit like navigating a minefield laid out by the keepers of the culture: deviate from the path of authenticity and woe betide you. Approaching without reverence on the other ...
FISH EYE at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★☆☆ Daniel Jameson’s current offering is a morality play. The moral is a simple one: a suspicious mind can eagerly twist innocuous and innocent behaviour into something nefarious, so don’t judge on su...
Matthew Bourne’s Early Adventures at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★★ With Bourne’s work cresting with his current production of Red Shoes, following his stunningly successful interpretation of Sleeping Beauty, it feels entirely appropriate to revisit the original crysta...
THE CASTLE BUILDER at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★★☆ Non-conformists everywhere, here is a show dedicated to you! . . . The RSC have recently gone into collaboration with Intel to produce high-end computer generated graphics to enhance their latest product...
MEET FRED at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★★☆ Fred is intrepid. He wants to be like everyone else, just a regular sort of guy. In this he is exhorted by the show’s director, Ben Pettitt-Wade, to “be his own puppet”. But being made of fabric ...
Saint Petersburg CLASSIC BALLET – Swan Lake at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ This production by the Saint Petersburg Classic Ballet company, under the direction of Marina Medvetskaya, opts for the romantic version of Tchaikovsky’s intricate ballet . . . Rothbart, the sorcerer,...