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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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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...
GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM at Bath Theatre Royal
There’s a lot to be said for a simple story well told and Goodnight Mister Tom is such a one. For a whole generation of British children brought up in the city, the experience of being evacuated during the Second Worl...
STOMP at the Theatre Royal Bath
Rhythms are sometimes dazzling in their intricacy and executed with wit and panache. ‘Instruments’ vary from matchboxes to oil drums: one of my favourites was a little number, performed in the dark using Zippo style ...
FOREVER YOURS, MARY-LOU at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
The production would seem to owe more to Beckett than Brecht in that it sets about paring down to a minimum what we like to call the ‘action’ of the play. The audience is treated to a row of four chairs, which auste...
PRIVATE LIVES at Bath Theatre Royal
Private Lives does not poke fun at the way the middle classes actually carried on but, tongue-in-cheek and with ironically raised eyebrows mocked the way they might have behaved in the elegant world created by Mr.Coward....
HOBSON’S CHOICE at Bath Theatre Royal
Having drunk himself to within a few pints of the grave, Hobson is told by his straight talking doctor that his only salvation lies in the hands of a strong-willed woman, and in a scene reminiscent of Lear’s testing of...
RIGHT NOW at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
Writer, Catherine-Anne Toupin shows a deft hand both in misdirection and in creating a frisson of sexual excitement. The package is darkly comic with a sad and tragic kernel. Apparently suffering some sort of psychotic e...