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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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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...
THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY DRINKER at the Ustinov, Bath
The last work of writer and journalist Joseph Roth before he died of alcoholism, The Legend is a painful yet magical autobiographical imagining from this eloquent liberal Jewish writer cast adrift in the late 1930s . . ....
REEL LIFE at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
I’m always encouraged and delighted when a writer finds some fresh way of getting their ideas across, some novel way to use the empty space and offer the patient audience a new key to somebody else’s world. Alys Metc...
MMM HMMM at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
Like a newly anointed politician smartened up for public consumption the show has had a makeover since its first iteration at the Wardrobe Theatre, prior to an outing at Edinburgh. Some glitzy shoes and smart designer ba...
TRANSPORTS at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
Amidst all the national hand-wringing over the fate of those forlorn, native North Africans and Middle-Easterners fleeing the unspeakable horrors perpetrated by bloody tyrants and religious fanatics, it is far too easy t...
SWAN LAKE at Bath Theatre Royal.
There were outstanding cameos during the second act. Viktoriya Zhukova was eye-catching in the Spanish dance at the prince’s coming of age ball. And Romanova again impressed, this time as the evil Rothbart’s daughter...
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK at Bath Theatre Royal
Nigel Havers gives the impression of having far more fun than a working chap has any right to. If you didn’t know it was him, you might think the part of Fleshcreep was being played by a beastly half-brother. In the be...