Monday, May 12 until Saturday, May 17,
Theatre Royal Bath.
Maria Aitken’s critically acclaimed West End and Broadway production of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 spy thriller, The 39 Steps, tours to Bath next week.
Until May 24,
Salisbury Playhouse.
Salisbury Playhouse completes the Spring/Summer season with Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw, which is directed by Philip Wilson, the Playhouse’s artistic director.
Until Saturday May 10,
Theatre Royal Bath.
A play that leaves you speechless has to be a play worth
seeing, and Peter Shaffer’s Equus (the Latin word for horse) is one that will both haunt and shock you.
Intervention/Decoration,
Friday May 9 until June 21,
Various venues, Frome.
Foreground, Frome’s newest arts organisation, is launching
its inaugural exhibition, Intervention/Decoration, on Friday.
Until Saturday May 3,
Theatre Royal Bath.
The Peter Hall company gave theatregoers another chance to see the original 1916 version of George Bernard Shaw’s comedy this week before it opens in the West End.
Until Saturday April 26,
Theatre Royal Bath.
BY 21st century standards, 18th century comedy can seem be a little laboured, but the central joke in Goldsmith’s enduring romp is timeless.
THE third Cloth Road Arts Week takes place next month, celebrating the work of local artists. In the weeks before the event, beginning May 3, we are
featuring those who taking part.
Until Sunday April 20,
Theatre Royal Bath.
THE challenge of staging fantasy is a major one, and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, which has rapidly achieved iconic status with both teenage and adult readers, requires no small feats of characterisation – how do you portray a person’s animal soul?
THE third Cloth Road Arts Week takes place next month, celebrating the work of artists in Trowbridge, Bradford on Avon, Melksham and the surrounding villages.
Until Saturday April 5,
Theatre Royal Bath.
The Pirate King in this robust interpretation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s fanciful operetta owes more to Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack than to his Victorian predecessors, both in costume and manner.
THE third Cloth Road Arts Week takes place next month, celebrating the work of artists in Trowbridge, Bradford on Avon, Melksham and the surrounding villages.
