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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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TROUBLE IN MIND at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
Bravely, as it must have been in 1955, the play unravels some of the prejudices and preconceptions that bedevilled race relations in 50s America. Like many a notable work it plays out society’s tensions in the (unfulfi...
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at Bath Theatre Royal
A merry mash-up of spoof gothic horror, cheesy sci-fi and singalong rock, it’s as well-known as a Dad’s Army repeat. There was a time when its celebratory take on gender-bending was ground-breaking, but transvestism ...
HORRIBLE HISTORIES: BARMY BRITAIN at Bath Theatre Royal
As we awake to a new American president we can take a crumb of comfort by reflecting that however bad things may seem at the present it was by any measure worse at some stage in the past (take your pick). Terry Deary’...
RAMBERT Triple Bill at Bath Theatre Royal
You have to hand it to Rambert. For this, their 90th anniversary season, the company hasn’t flinched from producing challenging, sometimes esoteric works, including an ambitious reinterpretation of Macbeth on a split s...
English Touring Opera’s LA CALISTO at Bath Theatre Royal
English Touring Opera’s LA CALISTO is blessed with excellent singing in all the major roles, but director Timothy Nelson’s interpretation is too heavily weighted with symbolism. The central theme of this opera is sur...
STEPPING OUT at Bath Theatre Royal
The scene is a church hall (lovingly recreated in Robert Jones’ detailed set) in which Mavis (Tamzin Outhwaite) an unfulfilled dancer has arranged tap dance lessons for a motley group of women and one, slightly gap-in-...
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...