AWARD-winning stage and screen star Ralph Fiennes directs a summer season of plays at Bath Theatre Royal, and plays the joint lead in the opening play, the world premiere of David Hare’s Grace Pervades, running in the theatre from Friday 27th June to Saturday 19th July. Fiennes, BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated star of Conclave, plays the…
SIDMOUTH’s Manor Pavilion theatre hosts its annual summer season of plays in repertory from Monday 23rd June to mid-September. The season, at the seaside town’s Manor Pavilion theatre, is now said to be the longest running continuous summer rep in the country. Over 12 weeks, local theatre-goers and holiday-makers are entertained with a programme of…
FORGET all the hype around The Traitors – the hottest, darkest game in town is The Witching Hour! ReBels Young Company, based at Plymouth’s Barbican Theatre, will bring this exciting and very different show to Dorchester Corn Exchange on 29th June as part of a long national tour. Black cats, broomsticks and pentagrams? It sounds…
THERE will be a second and longer season of summer rep at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, following last year’s successful inaugural season, with five popular plays on from 23rd July to 27th August. There’s something for everyone with comedies, thrillers and classic drama, including a Jane Austen adaptation, celebrating the great novelist’s 250th anniversary…
ONE of the world’s leading playwrights, David Hare made a remarkable journey in 1997, visiting the Middle East, where he interviewed 33 people in Israel and Palestine – these interviews formed the basis of play, which is being staged at Bath Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th June. Via Dolorosa, a…
PETER James is of the UK’s most popular crime writers, and DSI Roy Grace is his best-known character, from the novels, television versions, starring John Simm, and stage adaptations, the latest of which, Picture You Dead, comes to Bath Theatre Royal from Tuesday 17th to Saturday 21st June. Set in Brighton, Picture You Dead sees…
A NEW play that examines the unique relationship between the late Queen Elizabeth II and her dresser, Daisy Goodwin’s By Royal Appointment, has its world premiere at Bath Theatre Royal, from Thursday 5th to Saturday 14th June, before a UK tour. The play stars Anne Reid as the Queen and Caroline Quentin as The Dresser,…
MATTHEW Bourne, the inspired creator of the all-male Swan Lake, and many other dance theatre pieces, scored another hit and won more awards with his 2021 production, The Midnight Bell, which comes to the Theatre Royal Bath from Tuesday 20th to Saturday 24th May, as part of a countrywide tour. His company, New Adventures, makes…
ANYONE who remembers Alfred Hitchcock’s enthralling and dramatic Cold War era thriller, North by North West, with its terrifying scene of the hero being pursued by a crop-duster plane, will want to see how the ever-inventive Emma Rice has adapted the 1950s film for the stage. Find out when her Wise Children company comes, all…
ONE of the best-loved plays of the past 50 years, Educating Rita, comes to Cirencester’s tiny but adventurous Barn Theatre from Friday 16th May to Saturday 28th June. Willy Russell’s two-hander, originally staged in 1980 with Julie Walters in the title role, and three years later filmed with Walters again and Michael Caine as the…