GRAHAM Greene had a dry sense of humour, never better shown than in Our Man In Havana, which has been adapted for the stage by the actor and writer Clive Francis. The new comedy of a vacuum cleaner salesman caught up in espionage in pre-revolutionary Cuba comes to Salisbury Playhouse from 14th to 18th July…
THREE acclaimed actors – Toby Stephens, Amanda Abbington and Noah Valentine – play the leading roles in Peter Shaffer’s dark, probing masterpiece, Equus, which comes to Bath Theatre Royal from Tuesday 14th to Saturday 25th July, in a production directed by Lindsay Posner, which received rave reviews when it premiered at the Menier Chocolate Factory….
IT is hard to believe that there were only 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers – and almost as hard to find that it is just over 50 years since the BBC showed this absolute classic of English rudeness and gentility at the seaside. Now it comes as a stage play, adapted by creator John Cleese,…
PICTURESQUE Sidmouth is not only a delightful seaside resort and home to the country’s oldest folk festival, it also has the longest-running traditional summer rep season, at the Manor Pavilion theatre, this year continuing to Saturday 19th September. For three months, with a week out for Sidmouth Folk Festival, the theatre has a weekly professional…
FROME celebrates the 25th anniversary of its multi-arts festival this year – and the festival opens on 3rd July, just two days after the funeral of Martin Bax, the actor, former town and district councillor and mayor, who became one of Frome’s most loved and valued citizens. A former actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Martin…
THE adventurous Egg theatre at Bath Theatre Royal is premiering a new adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved classic The Secret Garden, from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 26th July. The new disability-led production is celebrating the Egg’s 21st birthday, with a series of initiatives to support emotional wellbeing. The venue, which opened in 2005, will…
IF you know anything about the early years of rock’n’roll, the names Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley will be top of anyone’s list of performers. Add in the unmistakeable voice and charisma of Johnny Cash and you have a recipe for … Million Dollar Quartet, returning to Cirencester’s Barn Theatre for a…
ONE of Thomas Hardy’s great Wessex novels, The Return of the Native, is rarely adapted for the stage, unlike Tess of the D’Urbevilles, Far From the Madding Crowd or The Mayor of Casterbridge. But it is one of the most powerful and atmospheric stories. Hotbuckle Theatre is touring a new stage version of the novel,…
THE play that skewers the brittle, materialist, class-conscious spirit of the 1970s, Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party is on a national tour, in a new production starring Tamzin Outhwaite, coming to Bath Theatre Royal from Monday 22nd to Saturday 27th June. A ferocious satire on suburban life, the play is set in the Essex home of…
THE Emma Rice Company will be coming to Bath Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio this Christmas with a delightful staging of Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Adapted and directed by Emma Rice, the play was a sell-out at her company’s Frome base last year, and fans will be delighted to get a second chance…