TIME travel and the Scottish play … you might not think a time-travelling romantic series of novels and television adaptations, one of Scotland’s best-known actors making his Royal Shakespeare Company debut and a comedy about three school-kids have much in common. But the clue is in the heading – the Scottish play, as you have…
THE early years of the Second World War may have seemed an inappropriate time to stage a comedy about the ghosts of people recently dead, but Noel Coward was a shrewd man. When he wrote his great farce, Blithe Spirit, he reasoned that the story would be thoroughly heartless – “You can’t sympathise with any…
OSCAR-winning actor Ralph Fiennes completes his season of productions at the Theatre Royal Bath, starring in Small Hotel, by Rebecca Lenkiewicz and starring Ralph Fiennes, in its world premiere from Friday 3rd to Saturday 18th October. The cast also includes the acclaimed stage and screen actress Francesca Annis, Rosalind Eleazar and Rachel Tucker. Larry is…
JANE Austen’s millions of fans tend to have their favourites among her heroines – for many it will be Elizabeth Bennett, for some it will be Anne Elliot, but for a lot of us it is the high-spirited but often wrong-headed Emma Woodhouse. Bath Theatre Royal celebrates the Jane Austen 250th anniversary with a new…
WELSH storyteller Shon-Dale Jones is back on tour with a new show, Stories From An Invisible Town, with final dates in the area at Bath Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio on 17th and 18th November. Shôn is first and foremost a storyteller. He’s honest, inventive, and deeply human … curious, restless, wide-eyed, offbeat and resonant. His…
CHARLOTTE Bronte’s Jane Eyre is one of the most famous, widely raid and critically acclaimed novels in the English language – it is also one of the most frequently adapted for stage and screen. A new play by Live Wire and Rough House theatre takes a different approach comes to the West Country on tour…
WHEN actors Poppy Hardwicke and Lauren Mooney set out to tell a story about chronic fatigue, a condition they both live with, they called their performance Tired All The Time – it’s hard to think of a more appropriate name for the work they produced during a three-day R&D residency at Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre….
SAMUEL Beckett’s black comedy masterpiece Endgame comes to the stage of Bath’s Ustinov Studio from 4th September to 4th October. The new production is directed by Lindsay Posner, and stars Douglas Hodge and Mathew Horn as Hamm and Clov, with Selina Cadell and Clive Francis as the wildly eccentric parents. In a bare room, Hamm,…
FANS of The Archers, the world’s longest-running radio soap opera, will be beating a path to Cirencester’s adventurous Barn Theatre from 1st September to 1st October, when the intimate venue stages the world premiere of Haywire, a comedy that celebrates the “not-so-everyday story of how The Archers was born.” Written by Tim Stimpson, and directed…
RALPH Fiennes, artistic director of Bath Theatre Royal’s 2025 summer season, turns from acting in Grace Pervades to directing, Shakespeare’s As You Like It, at the theatre from 15th August to 6th September. One of the most delightful romatic comedies, it is set in the Forest of Arden, where love is always in the air….