Theatre Picks in Bath
Mission Theatre
Wed 9-Sat 12 Oct. Blithe Spirit. Bath Operatic and Dramatic Society stage Noel Coward’s hilarious drama featuring a seance with Madame Arcati who unwittingly connects with Charles Condomine’s late first wife Elvira who makes life for him and his new wife Ruth very tricky. Nightly at 7.30pm with a Saturday matinee.
Thu 17-Sat 19 Oct. Opera: Mansfield Park. Cardiff Opera bring a new production of Jane Austen’s novel. Katie Blackwell directors, Joe Davies conducts Dove’s music, with a quintessentially Bath backdrop.
Tue 22-Wed 23 Oct. The Prince and the Knave adapted from William Shakespeare. Shakespeare Live revisits Henry IV and Hal and Falstaff’s laddish adventures.
Rondo Theatre
Wed 2-Sat 5 Oct. Design For Living. Bath Drama stage Noel Coward’s drama about Otto, an artist, Leo, a playwright, and Gilda, an interior designer, as they grapple with their complicated three-way relationship. 7:30pm.
Wed 9 Oct. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist. The play follows a group of workers as they renovate ‘The Cave’, a three-storey town house, for Mayor Sweater. It traces their hardships and struggles for survival in a complacent and stagnating Edwardian England. These workers are the ‘philanthropists’ who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. They are joined by artist Owen, whose spirited attacks on the dishonesty of capitalism, along with his socialist vision, highlights the exploitation in their workplace but also focuses on the inequality in society as a whole. By Neil Gore from the book by Robert Tressell. A Townsend Theatre Production.
Wed 16-Sat 19 Oct. Chicago: Teen Edition • 3pm & 7:30pm • Admission £15 • Community Theatre. Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse; Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb. Presented by Merriman Productions. Set amidst the razzle-dazzle decadence of the 1920s, CHICAGO is the story of Roxie Hart, a wannabe nightclub dancer who murders her lover after he threatens to walk out on her.
Theatre Royal Main House
Thu 24 Oct-Sat 2 Nov. Summer 1954. Table Number Seven and The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan. Evenings 7.30pm. Matinees Thurs & Sat 2.30pm. Double bill of Ratigan plays with Nathaniel Parker and Dame Siân Phillips in an ensemble cast.
The Egg
Thu 24-26-Sun Oct. The Little Prince. Toby Thompson’s adaptation of the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novel, as philosophical as its original, invites its audience to sense infinite possibility and recognise everything that is beautiful in the world. Performed by Toby Thompson (pictured), who brings this enchanting tale to life with his signature style. Various perf times.
Mon 7 Oct. Play Back. Community Theatre. Exploring the theme: 10 Ways To Say Goodbye, ‘Play Back’ will immerse you in the creative possibilities of ‘theatre of the mind’. Written by Engage writers and performed by Engage actors, this is a special listening event featuring brand new mini plays, freshly recorded and edited. Hosted by the project director Paul Dodgson who has written and directed many plays for BBC Radio 4 and is the presenter of New Creatives Dramas on BBC Radio 4Extra.
Ustinov Studio
Mon 7-Wed 9 Oct. The Long Run. When Katie’s mum is diagnosed with cancer her life grinds to a stop. But when she meets an elderly man in a radiotherapy waiting room corridor, everything changes. One in two of us will get cancer in our lifetimes. It can happen to anyone. People who run the marathon… They’ve only got themselves to blame. Created by writer-performer Katie Arnstein and directed by Bec Martin, The Long Run is a tender, emotionally rich – and frequently hilarious – story about human connection, cancer diagnosis, and long-distance running.
Tue 15-Sat 19 Oct. Our Little Hour. The fascinating story of Walter Tull, grandson of a Barbadian slave, orphaned at eight years old, who rose to prominence against all odds, combining a power packed drama with hauntingly original music. The first black footballer to play at the highest level of the domestic game in the UK he went on to achieve yet another historic breakthrough as the first man of his heritage to be commissioned as an Officer in the British Army.
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