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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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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...
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
One of the notable things about Feydeau was his ability to spin a piece of fluff into a complete suit of clothes. His art is to set up a ridiculously flimsy premise by way of a plot, which then develops its own logic in ...
AN INSPECTOR CALLS at the Theatre Royal, Bath
J B Priestley’s classic polemic is very much in step with Jeremy Corbyn’s recent social inequality cris de coeur. The production is clearly in danger of being closed down any minute by the Ministry of Information! As...
Rambert’s THE THREE DANCERS at the Theatre Royal Bath
The evening began with The 3 Dancers, a piece inspired by the 1925 painting by Picasso. Dutch choreographer Didy Veldman had been curious to see if she could apply Cubism to dance using light and layers of movement. Two ...
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 ...