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Theatre Royal Bath, until Saturday 18 September Words by Emma Clegg There’s nothing so poised for dramatic effect as a...
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Theatre Royal Bath, until Saturday 4 September Words by Melissa Blease British theatre, 1972: David Hare’s Slags analysed radical feminism,...
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Theatre Royal Bath until Saturday 28 August Words by Melissa Blease A beautiful starlet has been stabbed to death on a film set, and sardonic sleuth Stan Shakespeare is poised to find out whodunnit. Classic noir? To misquote Humphrey Bogart’s iconic Sam Spade character (who partly inspired this production), “don’t...
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Theatre Royal Bath until 21 August Words by Emma Clegg Groan Ups – another in the endless string of smash...
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Showing at the Theatre Royal Bath until 7 August The Play That Goes Wrong proved itself right last night at...
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Julian Clary doesn’t like to take things too seriously, and we love him for it. Melissa Blease chats to him ahead of his appearance in The Dresser at Theatre Royal Bath and asks him how he’s coped with such a grown-up acting role “It was the 1980s!” says Julian Clary,...
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Theatre Royal Bath until 31 July Words by Melissa Blease Restrictions are lifting, holidays are on the near horizon and...
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Theatre Royal Bath until 24 July Words by Melissa Blease At the end of highly acclaimed theatre company Told by...
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Britney Spears is coming to Bath. Well, it’s actually a show called Saving Britney, written by local writer and director David Shopland. Emma Clegg investigates and finds not just Britney, but Aristotle, John Cleese and Sean Connery The narrative arc as we know it today all comes from Aristotle and...
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Theatre Royal Bath until 10 July Words by Melissa Blease It may not have much in the way of big-budget...
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On at the Theatre Royal Bath until 3 July Words by Melissa Blease On February 15 1987, Graham Greene –...
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Ustinov Studio until 3 July Words by Melissa Blease Seven months have passed since this new production of David Mamet’s incendiary contemporary classic Oleanna premiered at the Ustinov, representing a shining beacon of hope in the theatre’s Welcome Back season. But as we all know (all too well), Covid had...