YES, that’s Greece, not Grease … the award-winning Mischief company comes to Bath Theatre Royal from Tuesday 26th to Saturday 30th May with the latest stage mayhem, a musical comedy which offers an (unlikely) explanation for the origins of acting. Thespians, packed with comedy, chaos and choreography sure to have the audience aching with laughter,…
BATH’S Egg theatre has a delightful show for children and their families over the May half term, from Thursday 28th to Sunday 31st May, when Let’s All Dance Ballet Company presents Alice in Wonderland. This magical ballet is recommended for children aged two years and over. Come and join Alice as she enters the curiouser…
THE world premiere tour of Single White Female comes to Bath Theatre Royal from 19th to 23rd May, and promises dark humour and suspenseful storytelling as it updates the 1990s story to the age of social media. It is all about ambition, obsession and the desperate need to belong in an increasingly isolated world Starring…
“THE ship is in her trim; the merry wind blows fair from land*” – exactly the message you need as you’ve packed the picnic basket, stowed the chairs in the car, checked your tickets on the phone (?) and set off for an evening in the open air, surrounded by trees and hedgerows, all ready…
IF you hear the name E Nesbit, you picture the cosy period charm of The Railway Children – but writing as Edith, Nesbit had a dark side, which is explored in an evening of horror story-telling at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, on Friday 15th May at 7.30pm. Following the success of The Masks of…
IN recent years, Mary Anning, the remarkable fossil hunter of Lyme Regis, has been celebrated in print, on stage and on screen – even as a prototype lesbian. But the character remains both enduringly fascinating and slightly elusive. Now a new one-woman play, coming to Dorchester Arts at the Corn Exchange on Thursday 14th May…
THE ever-adventurous Barn Theatre at Cirencester is staging a revival of Double Double, a clever story of power, love and illusion. First produced in 1986 at London’s Fortune Theatre, the play is at the Barn until 30th May. Weeks before his 37th birthday, Philippa’s husband Richard dies. But the terms of his inheritance required that…
EMMA Rice, acclaimed former artistic director of Kneehigh Theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe, brings her Frome-based Emma Rice Company in her own adaptation and production of Malory Towers, to Bath Theatre Royal from Friday 1st to Saturday 9th May, ahead of a national tour. First staged in Bristol in 2019, this brilliant staging of a favourite…
SPITFIRE Girls, Katherine Senior’s dramatised story of the Second World War female pioneers who flew Spitfires, is back on tour, coming to Salisbury Playhouse from 5th to 9th May. Inspired by remarkable true events, Tilted Wig’s production, which began as a co-production with MAST Studio in Southampton, opens on New Year’s Eve, 1959. Decades after…
CONSTANCE Middleton has everything – a loving family, a beautiful home, a fulfilling career and a husband as devoted to her as he is to his mistress. What could possibly go wrong? The answers may surprise you in the RSC production of The Constant Wife which comes to Poole Lighthouse from 27th April to 2nd…