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Theatre Royal Bath until Saturday 26 NovemberWords by Melissa Blease At the end of every performance of English murder mystery...
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It was the year that Marilyn Monroe serenaded President Kennedy on his birthday, when Marvel’s Spider-Man superhero made his first...
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Coming up with a winning theatrical formula is especially challenging when its development is interrupted by a national lockdown – director Luke Sheppard tells Melissa Blease the story of bringing The Da Vinci Code to the stage. American author Dan Brown’s 170,000-word 2003 novel saw a Harvard professor of symbology...
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When we say ‘zoom’, we’re not talking the cloud-based communications app, but the real, physical zoom word. What follows are...
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Now that we are unfazed by QR codes, new experiences are coming our way. In Bath it’s all about illustrated...
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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 production with two interdependent protagonists. Especially if charisma is at play. Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser, first performed in the West End in 1980, took advantage of this powerfully with his...
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Words by Melissa Blease Burnt Norton, 1935: “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” When TS Eliot wrote those words, the...