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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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ETO’s PELLEAS ET MELISANDE at Bath Theatre Royal.
I would argue that Claude Debussy’s dark meandering score for Maeterlinck’s original play, part fairy story, part symbolist essay, is one for the more academic, purist of opera-goers. A gloomy tale in a shady place, ...
MONSIEUR POPULAR at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
Farce is as old as Western comedy itself and perhaps finds its full flowering in the French theatre around the turn of the nineteenth century, when many of the usual devices such as extravagant plot are kept whilst stock...
1984 at Bath Theatre Royal
Orwell’s novel of existential angst (subsequently given the appearance of alarming prescience by events in the Cold War) set in a dystopian future, is well established as a classic of the genre. The mark of its status ...
The Shawshank Redemption at the Theatre Royal Bath
Adapted directly from the Stephen King novel by Owen O’Neill and Dave Johns. Andy Dufresne (Ian Kelsey), a sensitive, thoughtful man, wrongly convicted for the murder of his wife and her lover, initially finds himself ...
MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS at the Theatre Royal, Bath
This is a play about age, fortitude, life, sex and much else, with a nod to the indignities of censorship. If I was at times a little lost as to where the play was taking me it didn’t really matter since, like the revu...
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER at the Theatre Royal Bath
Anita Dobson, beloved by many for her appearances as Angie Watts in EastEnders and in Strictly Come Dancing stole the night with her hilarious entrance as the bedraggled, soaked and much-duped mother of the very naughty ...
THE FATHER at the Theatre Royal, Bath
"The universally praised production of Christopher Hampton’s translation of Florian Zeller’s French hit returns, triumphantly, to the Theatre Royal, this time in the main house. I reviewed this, my favourite play of ...
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Bath Theatre Royal
The Bath audience greeted Suchet’s entrance with warm applause. By the end they clapped long enough for repeated sweeps to the front of the stage with the entire cast and a final triumphant solo pose and flourish. A lo...
THE MOTHER at the Ustinov, Bath
Florian Zeller is a clever writer. Instinctively it appears, he has learned one of the peculiar strengths of the theatre; the relationship between spectator and actor, in tandem with one of the most precious of dramatic ...
Monty Python’s SPAMALOT at Bath Theatre Royal
It is difficult to decide who might be most disappointed by Monty Python’s Spamalot. Certainly fans of Eric Idle or the Holy Grail who will go expecting to see something raucous and silly and madcap – something that ...
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE at Theatre Royal Bath
" . . . Only the most hidebound traditionalists would mourn the absence of females in the cast, so convincing is this version. I found it quite revelatory . . . this is undoubtedly a hugely enjoyable show, for having an ...
OUTSIDE MULLINGAR at the Ustinov Theatre, Bath
"This compassionate and delightful romantic comedy from the Pulitzer Prize, Tony and Oscar-winning author of Doubt will win many hearts. The great appeal in John Patrick Shanley’s play lies in one woman’s fight to ov...