3 Female Actors Needed for Open-Book Profit Share Show dates: Wednesday 15th – Saturday 18th November Audition date: Saturday 26th August at the Rondo Theatre in Larkhall, Bath. Application deadline: Thursday 22nd August I am looking for three female actors to play characters in their early twenties. Experience with devising
EDGES RONDO THEATRE Do you want to see an off-Broadway musical? No need to go to New York; you need go no further than the Rondo. It may be a long way off Broadway, but this latest production from local company Exit Stage Left sounds and feels authentically American. It’s
Network Tales After Dark / Written by Tom Menary Restless Theatre Company Rondo Theatre 7th June 2017 “You see, but you do not observe” There’s always an air of mystery surrounding the strangers we come across on public transport. Everyone’s guilty of making up names and stories for them, whether
Spaghetti! Rondo Theatre, 3rd June With playful imagery, ingenious sets, gorgeous sound design and a huge helping of humour, this puppet-pastiche of Spaghetti Westerns was an absolute joy to behold. Upon entering the Rondo Theatre this evening, I could hear audience members already brimming with excitement. Many spoke
STILL DOING IT RONDO THEATRE This is a show in which local luminaries, performance poet David C Johnson and singer-songwriter Mike Scott (not the one from the Waterboys) put together some old favourites with some new ones, some jokes and asides and call it a new show. Well, it’s new
Super Hamlet 64: Parody DLC at the Rondo Theatre, Bath Fringe I’d never actually seen the original Hamlet, but Edward Day’s ‘Super Hamlet 64: Parody DLC’ didn’t rely too heavily on Shakespeare’s original script beyond the plot outline and several choice quotes known throughout pop culture (‘to be or not
Blooming Out NOS Three Rondo Theatre 27th May 2017 3½ stars Blooming Out is a female-driven comedy, starring two Brazilian performers (Maria Rocha and Bianca Bertalot). The close-knit duo take us through a lifetime of female experiences that many women know all too well – the good, the
ACTA have been touring their production of “Gas Girls” across the region since its inception in 2014. It is a community piece, based on stories and information from the relatives of women who worked at Chittening and Avonmouth factories making and loading mustard gas shells to aid the efforts at
Playwright David Martin is making his Bath Fringe debut with a newly written two-hander dealing with the fragility of being human in the modern world. Friday 26th May @ The Rondo Theatre: 8pm (Bath Fringe Festival) Softsod Productions Presents …. FRAGILE MAN On an isolated hilltop two men must face their darkest
MITCH BENN: DON’T FEAR THE REAPER RONDO THEATRE There are many things that can be said about Mitch Benn. ‘Laid back’ isn’t one of them. He comes onstage, guitar in hand, and launches without preamble into his full-on, top-volume take on the Blue Oyster Cult anthem from which
THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC SKIFFLE ORCHESTRA RONDO THEATRE An avowedly old-fashioned sort of show, this. Skiffle, as they point out, was a long time ago, and didn’t last long – though they and most of the audience demographic look as though they would remember it (your critic not excepted). But unlike
BARBARA NICE: RAFFLE RONDO THEATRE Do you imagine that a middle-class actor in a wig, playing a caricature Northern working-class housewife, can successfully get a middle-class Bath audience to pretend they are working class and dance, literally, to her tune? Janice Connolly can. Her ebullient character, Barbara Nice, brooks
ED PATRICK: JUNIOR OPTIMIST RONDO THEATRE Ed Patrick is a doctor. Surely not: he looks every inch the up-and-coming modern comedian, faded jeans, scruffy shirt, unruly hair. Of course, he’s not the first doctor to do comedy. Hank Wangford, Phil Hammond, Jonathan Miller. All doctors. But none of them
BRENDON BURNS: BLACK COMEDIAN RONDO THEATRE Brendon Burns isn’t black. You can tell that right away; but in case you hadn’t noticed he does bring it to your attention. He is Australian, though, and he sure brings that to your attention. This is a show, basically, that is looking
BEFORE THE PARTY RONDO THEATRE A strange choice, this, for a revival. Rodney Ackland’s 1949 play, adapted loosely from Somerset Maugham’s 1922 short story of the same name, seems very much a period piece now. It revolves around the snobbish middle class Skinner family and their arguments over who
MAESTRO RONDO THEATRE ‘Maestro’ turns out to be an apt title for this solo show from Kieran Hodgson; not particularly because of his fascination with Gustav Mahler (What kind of subject is that for a comedy show?), but because of his total mastery of the art of comic story-telling.
THE THING THAT CAME FROM OVER THERE! RONDO THEATRE In this era of alternative facts, the deliciously mad Gonzo Moose theatre company this time have decided to do the alternative facts of the 1912 Antarctic expedition of Captain Scott. An idea you may have seen done before; but not
THE RED COURT RONDO THEATRE This new play by noted local writer Clare Reddaway seeks to parallel a murky tale of ruthless political ambition in China with Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The story is based on the true life career and downfall of Bo Xilai, though all names have been changed
One Run and One Ball Of A Time At ‘When The Eye Has Gone’ I would like to mention that as a child, I did not get a cricket bat placed into my hands. Or cricket balls thrown at me at full speed, whilst reciting the full named list
Following a sellout tour in November 2016, Dougie Blaxland’s critically acclaimed one man show When The Eye Has Gone is returning to the road as part of a UK National tour in March 2017. When The Eye Has Gone tells the all too brief life of Colin “Ollie” Milburn
