The Theatre Royal Bath has announced a packed programme of drama, comedies, thrillers, musicals and their annual pantomime scheduled for the year ahead as it prepares to reopen next month.
The Theatre Royal Bath in Sawclose | Photo © Nigel Jarvis / Shutterstock.com
Highlights of the planned season include a visit by Ralph Fiennes in the world premiere stage adaptation of T.S.Eliot’s Four Quartets; Michael Frayn’s multi-award-winning Copenhagen, starring Philip Arditti, Haydn Gwynne and Malcolm Sinclair and David Mamet’s Oleanna, starring Jonathan Slinger and Rosie Sheehy which returns to the Ustinov Studio prior to a West End run.
Danny Moar, Director of Theatre Royal Bath, said: “I am delighted to be able to announce an exceptional range of shows for our Lights Up season, as we keenly anticipate the return of audiences to the Theatre Royal Bath.
“Staff are busy preparing to reopen our three auditoria once again and we are thrilled that the time has nearly arrived.
“Lights Up” is the announcement made backstage to the acting company and production staff by stage management indicating that the play is about to begin or resume.
“They are two words that have been uttered literally thousands of times in the long history of our theatre, and they seem particularly apt now as, with the extended interval of our closure nearly over, we prepare to invite audience members to take to their seats once again at the Theatre Royal Bath.
“We know theatregoers are looking forward to coming back and we can’t wait to open our doors to the public again in May.”
Thrillers of the programme range from Susan Hill’s ghost story, The Woman in Black to a new adaptation of Peter James’ Looking Good Dead starring Adam Woodyatt and Dan Brown’s blockbuster The Da Vinci Code.
Comedies include productions from the UK’s favourite farceurs, Mischief – The Play That Goes Wrong, Groan Ups and Magic Goes Wrong; Noël Coward’s Private Lives, starring Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodge; a new stage version of the sitcom The Good Life; Told by an Idiot’s acclaimed story of the most famous comedy double act that nearly was, Charlie and Stan; London Classic Theatre brings Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular, a comic tour-de-force which fuses a potent mix of farce and black comedy, and locally-based, award-winning New Old Friends perform their latest comedy thriller, Crimes, Camera, Action.
The West End comes to Bath in the form of hit musicals Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s hit musical about Henry VIII’s wives, SIX, returns to the Theatre Royal after enjoying huge success on its first visit in Spring 2020.
Traditional family pantomime returns for Christmas when Bath favourite Jon Monie stars in Cinderella.
The Ustinov Studio is presenting a Visiting Company Season of comedy, dance and drama.
General booking for all shows at the Theatre Royal Bath opens on Monday 19th April via the Box Office on 01225 448844 and online at www.theatreroyal.org.uk.
