With two weeks of its run still remaining, the current Ustinov Studio production, The Mentor, starring Hollywood legend and Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, has already become the best-selling production in Ustinov Studio history. The show must end on Saturday 6th May. The Mentor, by acclaimed German writer Daniel
Hollywood legend and Academy Award winner F MURRAY ABRAHAM takes to the Ustinov stage this week, in THE MENTOR, a new play by one of Europe’s most celebrated authors. F. Murray Abraham plays Benjamin Rubin, a cantankerous old writer, whiskey aficionado and pedant, still basking in the reflected glory of
Following a critically-acclaimed run at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas’s Total Theatre-nominated EUROHOUSE, co-produced by FellSwoop Theatre, returns for a major national UK tour. “Bienvenue. Kalosórisma. Welcome. We are so happy to see you all here. Some of you we know rather well, some of
Onset Productions from Bath Spa University are proud to be back at the Ustinov Studio with this controversial, rarely performed, Noel Coward comedy which the author described as “jagged with sophistication”. Semi-Monde follows a dizzying array of socialites and wannabes over a three-year period from 1924 to 1926. We
Crimes Against Christmas is a comedy thriller for an adult audience. The plot is loosely based around Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None with an apparently random group of people mysteriously invited to a Christmas party on a remote island. Once on the island, the guests start to die
A love story with a difference at the Ustinov Studio Thursday 29th September – Saturday 5th November HALF LIFE Written by John Mighton Directed by Nancy Meckler The Ustinov Studio’s Autumn Season of Plays from North America begins with an award-winning Canadian comedy. HALF LIFE is a heart-warming
The Theatre Royal Bath are delighted to announce that Panda Cox has been appointed to the newly created role of Ustinov Producer.
A Season of French-Canadian Drama – Spring 2016 Thursday 24th March – Saturday 30th April FOREVER YOURS, MARY-LOU (A toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou) The Ustinov Studio’s Season of French-Canadian Drama continues next week with the UK premiere ofForever Yours, Mary-Lou, a compelling dark comedy by award-winning Quebecois writer,
A Season of French-Canadian Drama – Spring 2016 Thursday 18th February – Saturday 19th March RIGHT NOW (A Présent) The Ustinov Studio’s Season of French-Canadian Drama opens next week with the UK premiere ofRight Now, a thrilling dark comedy by award-winning Quebecois writer and actress Catherine-Anne Toupin. It’s been
Shazia Mirza in The Kardashians Made Me Do It Saturday 6th February 2016 Following an acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run, Shazia Mirza brings her new show to the Ustinov as part of a nationwide tour. After three girls left Bethnal Green to join ISIS, comedian and columnist Shazia Mirza contributed a
MMM HMMM Wednesday 3 – Friday 5 February 2016 Bristol-based writer and performer Verity Standen visits Bath next month with Mmm Hmmm, a unique show highlighting the wonder of the human voice. With intricate vocal techniques and rich harmony, Mmm Hmmm is a playful, poignant musical journey through snapshots of
Musical storytellers The Devil’s Violin make their first visit to the Ustinov Studio next week with a unique experience in cinema of the mind. Drawing on influences from Folk and World to Jazz and Classical, they mix music and mystery in the story of The Forbidden Door. What would
Folio Theatre Company, creators of the critically acclaimed ‘Unearthed’, which visited Bath in May 2015, will return in February with a new play, ‘Reel Life’, set on the banks of the River Avon. ‘Reel Life’, written by Somerset-born playwright & Royal Court young writer Alys Metcalf, addresses issues of love,
Two award-winning solo shows play the Ustinov Studio in the New Year – Worklight Theatre’s Labels, about a boy of mixed heritage growing up in rural Devon, and Tayo Aluko’s tribute to one of the 20th Century’s most revered actors, Call Mr Robeson. Worklight Theatre’s award winning show Labels draws
The One That Got Away by Georges Feydeau, translated by Kenneth McLeish Directed by Laurence Boswell 12th November – 19th December 2015 The Ustinov Studio’s Autumn Season of French Farce continues next month with THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY, an uproarious comedy from the master of farce, Georges Feydeau,
Monsieur Popular by Eugène Marin Labiche Translated and directed by Jeremy Sams 1st October – 7th November 2015 The Ustinov Studio’s Autumn Season of French Farce opens next month with Eugène Marin Labiche’s MONSIEUR POPULAR, translated and directed by Jeremy Sams. To ensure his romantic affairs with married ladies
This stark, hard hitting drama is an account of six women convicted of petty crimes in 1807 and sentenced to a life of hard labour in Britain’s overseas penal colony, Australia, based on true accounts from slave ships of the time. During the six month voyage they are kept
OUTSIDE MULLINGAR by John Patrick Shanley Directed by Sam Yates 16th April – 16th May 2015 The Ustinov Studio’s World Theatre Season continues next month with the UK premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s bittersweet romantic comedy, OUTSIDE MULLINGAR, directed by Sam Yates, from 16th April – 16th May.
BAFTA winner and Olivier Award nominee GINA McKEE will play the mother in Florian Zeller’s play of the same name, at the Ustinov Studio from 21st May – 20th June. Gina McKee’s breakthrough role came in the iconic television drama Our Friends in the North, which earned her three
THE HARVEST by Pavel Pryazhko Translated by Sasha Dugdale; Directed by Michael Boyd 12th March – 11th April 2015 The Ustinov Studio’s World Theatre Season begins next month with the UK premiere of Pavel Pryazhko’s wickedly funny comedy, THE HARVEST, directed by Michael Boyd. “This ambitious studio theatre
