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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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A ROOM WITH A VIEW at Bath Theatre Royal
In this adroit stage version of A Room With A View, adapter Simon Reade has given prominence to the sheer fun Forster had in mocking the stifling conventions of upper-middle-class Edwardian society. This is a warm-hearte...
HALF LIFE at the Ustinov, Bath
Plato thought that the world would be improved once rulers were also philosophers. Whether the same claim could be made for theatre were playwrights drawn from the ranks of philosophers is at least debatable, though exam...
The Shakespeare Revue at Bath Theatre Royal
This show is at heart a revival. Not of Shakespeare, because he doesn’t need it, but of a theatrical genre not much seen since the 1960s. Revue used to be a popular staple of the theatre and found favour as a more up...
THE LIBERTINE at Bath Theatre Royal
Rochester’s is an irresistible story: the darling of the Restoration court, he revelled in the favour of Charles II. His life served as metaphor for the end of Cromwellian 17th century austerity. All the safety catches...
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Bath Theatre Royal
Laurence Boswell’s production eschews all romantic accretions, opting for a Brook-like white box in which a set of our contemporaries (complete with iPhones) act out the – at times sexually charged – fantasy. ...
WHILE THE SUN SHINES at the Theatre Royal, Bath
Although his first big hit was the comedy French Without Tears, Rattigan is best known today for serious dramas depicting the upper-middle class struggling with barely suppressed emotional conflicts. We certainly don’t...
LADY ANNA: ALL AT SEA at Bath Theatre Royal
To commemorate Anthony Trollope’s 200th birthday, Craig Baxter was commissioned by the Trollope Society to write a dramatized version of Lady Anna. Seldom read today, this is a conventional Victorian tale of a young w...
24 HOUR PLAYS at the Ustinov Theatre, Bath
Once again the Theatre Royal Bath throws the cards up in the air in an act of artistic bravado in the hope and belief that they will land in some sort of winning hand. As an agnostic in these matters I was not sure of t...
KING LEAR at Bath Theatre Royal
Michael Pennington has been around for as long as many of us can recall being interested in the theatre and the eventual coming to Lear seemed a good fit. Whilst not lacking in regal authority, his Lear is, naytheless, ...
H.M.S. PINAFORE at Bath Theatre Royal
This is a young, good looking and muscular cast and Lizzie Gee’s choreography is superbly inventive, funny and imaginative. I realised I was watching an all male navy production of a show, perhaps put on in the Second ...
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S at Bath Theatre Royal
You wouldn’t know it, but Emily Atack is making her stage debut in this recast touring production from Leicester’s Curve Theatre. She has not allowed the iconic status of the character of Holly Golightly to prevent ...
THE TRUTH at Bath Theatre Royal
The Truth is a bedroom farce without a bedroom of imminent discovery or slamming doors or hasty exits, closets or screens. Despite or perhaps because of an excellent translation by Christopher Hampton, a cool detachmen...