The latest theatre news for Bath.
Alan Bennett’s award-winning Talking Heads monologues, televised to considerable acclaim almost 30 years ago, are regarded as contemporary classics. In choosing three of them for their summer production, The Argyle Players set the bar high, but cleared it easily. In Soldiering On, Mair Smith gave an affecting performance as upper-middle-class
Invulnerable presents Howard Brenton’s Bloody Poetry + the (un)Staged Reading Series in Bath, UK After sold out residencies at The Brooklyn Art Library (Brooklyn, NY) and The Sekrit Theatre (Austin,TX) as well as a recent run at AvignonLeOff2017 (Avignon, France), international performance collective Invulnerable Nothings brings its rep production of
Row, row, row your boats, quickly ‘cross the sea, Off to find the treasure chest – a pirate’s life for me! Bath Drama’s winter show will be Treasure Island! The famous tale as you’ve never seen it before. ‘RL Stevenson’s rollicking adventure yarn featuring Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, Blind
The Argyle Players will be presenting Alan Bennett’s ‘Talking Heads’ – three short monologues from the award-winning radio and TV series – as their Summer production. ‘Soldiering On’ tells the story of Muriel (played by Mair Smith), whose husband has just died, leaving her rather well off, until her son
Join Zenith Youth Theatre Company on their Big Red Bus! Summer Holiday – The Musical 12-15th July 2017 Kingswood Theatre, Bath In their latest production, Zenith Youth Theatre Company are taking a trip back to 1963. Based on Cliff Richard’s legendary film of the same name, this fun packed adaptation
Our reading on Wednesday June 14th will now be ‘Halfway up the Tree’ by Peter Ustinov. A comedy in three acts! “This timely satire on the everlasting generation gap is not content to dally with the problem, but boldly thrusts on by having the older generation beat the younger
The most magical and probably the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays is being presented in a beautiful garden setting from Monday 3rd to Saturday 8th July at 8pm, with a matinee on Saturday at 2pm. Local company Shakespeare Live, in their 29th year of outdoor shows, have a new venue
Row, row, row your boats, quickly ‘cross the sea, Off to find the treasure chest – a pirate’s life for me! Bath Drama’s winter show will be Treasure Island! The famous tale as you’ve never seen it before. ‘RL Stevenson’s rollicking adventure yarn featuring Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, Blind
The ongoing journey of King Lear, alone and totally disorientated. For the audience, the play of his tragedy is over – yet for him there are still unresolved issues. What actually happened, why did it turn out the way it did, and where does he now turn? He now finds himself
Poor Valerie is about to reach a significant birthday and all the Aunties have secretly planned a fabulous surprise party including her favourite band… and you are all invited! Bath-based comedy troupe Amuse Bouche and Boxcats blues band (featuring James Lambeth) present a birthday party to remember: expect a retro
“Like nothing you’ve ever heard” Think of a Song Old Theatre Royal – Bath Every so often, a show comes along that makes you say “now that’s what the Fringe Festival is for”. Not offering certainty – nor a comfortable, easy ride – it promises to challenge, provoke and inspire
We have contacted all four potential candidates for the General Election in Bath to ask them their opinions on arts in the city as well as a few other burning issues. All of the responses from the candidates can be found below. In an effort to keep things fair:
BURDALL’S YARD 1st June – 6pm 2nd June – 4pm £10 / £8 Concs/ £5 BSU Student Book tickets here! Brexit, benefits, broken homes and viagra are only a few of the issues examined in this new original play by Matt Roberts. Set within the 4 walls of a
The year is 1882 and Cecil Snerd has invented the world’s first comfortable leather bicycle saddle; a blessed relief to velocipedists everywhere who have already dubbed the penny farthing: the man slicer! Cecil, cheated out of his invention by Teutonic cad Hans Von Bulge, languishes in debtor’s prison. It is
Bath Drama’s autumn production, 4th – 7th October will be Ghosts, by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Robert Constantine. As far as he’s aware, this play has not been performed in Bath since Bob’s previous production with the club in 1985. His preference is to do the play in period (1880)
On Sunday 9 April the Theatre Bath Bus officially flung open its doors to the public for the first time. This unique mobile performance venue, which took over a year to complete, was entirely funded by the local community. When the doors opened at noon it was flooded with people
Love new writing, unique voices and great stories? Then ScriptMix is your type of event! Based at The Nest, this is a regular event every month that profiles and celebrates new writing and creative ideas with an evening presenting a mix of new work from scriptwriters, poets, storytellers and spoken word artist. 24th
The Argyle Players will bring 1930s decadence and entertainment to Bath with ‘An Evening with Noël Coward – Three Comedies from the Master of Wit’, from Wednesday 3rd to Saturday 6th May 2017 at The Tovey Hall Theatre, Central United Reformed Church, in Grove Street, Bath. The three comic one-act
Actor Ray Martin is opening the village fete, playing on his fame as TV’s Inspector Brady. Little does he know that ambition, infidelity and marrow envy will lead to murder, and he’ll be left to solve the murder – without a script! Join us for an evening of drama, suspense and
Have a favourite play you haven’t seen in a while? Perhaps you’ve written something you need to hear out loud? Why not host your very own reading evening? We’ll provide the venue (Bath Drama Hut, Vane Street), the advertising and the full support of the committee. It’s free of charge,
