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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 MAD WORLD MY MASTERS at Bath Theatre Royal
" . . . the whole play is unblushingly mined for laughs with characterization going little deeper than the epithetical names, some of which have been changed for a modern ear. The humour is as broad as a Carry On film an...
THE HARVEST at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
" . . . Like the Emperor’s New Clothes, Pavel’s play is, on the surface, see-through simple. Apples are picked and attempts are made to put them in crates for an hour. That we come out debating references to the disa...
Daphne du Maurier’s REBECCA at the Theatre Royal Bath
" . . . Kneehigh brought trademark sideshow moments to the production. Throughout, moods were heightened by some lovely playing on violin, xylophone, mandolin, accordion and double bass, and there were full-throated Corn...
Alan Ayckbourn’s ROUNDELAY at Bath Theatre Royal
" . . . For me the four plays didn’t hang together and were only saved from complete collapse by some good acting. E.M.Forster gives a useful distinction of the difference between a random sequence and a plot; whereas,...
BROKE at the Ustinov Theatre, Bath
" . . .The Paper Birds have recognised two big truths: firstly that debt is the vehicle by which financial establishments create new money. And secondly that we are all slavishly engaged in the perpetration of this act, ...
AN EVENING OF DEMENTIA at the Ustinov, Bath
". . . Smith uses the play to make wider points. “There is a lot of dementia about,” he says, “We are forgetting to care for one another in an everyday common sense sort of way.” Delivered by the man who no longe...
WILDE WITHOUT THE BOY and THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL at the Ustinov, Bath
A one-man show has obvious challenges, but equally offers a world of possibilities. Unconfined by a rigid or specific set our imaginations, at the merest prompting can take us anywhere the dramatist would care to lead. I...
To Kill a Mockingbird at Bath Theatre Royal
"The ultimate parable of racial intolerance, bigotry and injustice, in 2006 British librarians ranked Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird ahead of the Bible as one "every adult should read before they die". It was adapt...
Rumpelstiltskin at the egg, Bath Theatre Royal
" . . . The production had a lavishness reminiscent of the Victorian theatre with live music (I would love to be able to see the musicians in future productions, space permitting), well-tailored and colorful costumes (th...
EXIT THE KING at the Ustinov Theatre, Bath
"In Ionesco’s list of the realities of life, death looms large. In Exit the King, which is like a panto for grown ups, set in a kind of crumbling Ruritania, designed by Anna Fleischle, we find king Berenger in the last...
RSC’s HENRY IV Part 1 at the Theatre Royal, Bath
"Wearing a red cushion for a crown and looking not unlike a character out of Captain Pugwash, Antony Sher as Falstaff sits atop a wooden chair as makeshift throne. . . Gregory Doran’s sparkling direction is both inspir...
BALLET RAMBERT at Bath Theatre Royal
" . . . The Theatre Royal audience rose as one to acclaim the ensemble after a triumphant, exhilarating and sensitive performance to some of the Rolling Stones’ finest early works. In a last moment of silence, Cuban da...