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 March 29,
Theatre Royal Bath.
Anthony Shaffer’s gripping and mysterious play, once described as the world’s greatest
thriller, had the whole audience gasping out loud with each new twist.
Until Saturday March 22,
Theatre Royal Bath.
Depression, infidelity and terminal illness are not happy topics, but The Clean House, by Sarah Ruhl, is full of surprises.
Until Saturday, March 22, Ustinov, Theatre Royal Bath.
PERCHED on the edge of my seat in the intimate new-look Ustinov I felt like a fly on the wall of a heated discussion between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his white psychiatrist.
Until Saturday, February 23, Bristol Hippodrome.
AS if floating effortlessly along like butterflies, the cast of Grigorovich‚s Nutcracker were spectacular and graceful in their performance at the Bristol Hippodrome this week.
The new spring/summer season at the Arc Theatre in Trowbridge offers a packed programme of live performance as well as a many opportunities to take part in the creation of theatre, dance and film.
Until Saturday February 23,
Theatre Royal Bath.
ALTHOUGH The Nutcracker ballet embodies the spirit of Christmas, a mid-February showing at the Theatre Royal Bath is no less magical.
Monday, February 18 until Saturday, February 23
Theatre Royal Bath
MOSCOW City Ballet, accompanied by the Moscow Ballet Orchestra, makes a welcome return to the Theatre Royal Bath next week, with two of the best-loved ballets in the repertoire, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and Cinderella set to Prokofiev’s emotive score.
Monday, February 18 until Saturday, February 23
Bristol Hippodrome.
Catch the breathtakingly spectacular famous 1966 Moscow production of The Nutcracker directed by one of Moscow’s finest, Yuri Grigorovich, for 30 years the director of the world-famous Bolshoi Ballet and the ballet widely regarded as the greatest of Russian ballets, Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty.
Until Saturday, February 16, Theatre Royal Bath.
Full of raw emotion and ironic humour, Stephen Mulrine’s translation of Anton Chekhov’s tragi-comedy crackled and fizzed at the Theatre Royal Bath this week, with Nicholas le Prevost and Neil Pearson leading a superb cast.
Until February 23, Salisbury Playhouse.
The Herbal Bed is Peter Whelan’s brilliant retelling of a scandal involving Shakespeare’s eldest daughter, the upstanding and virtuous Susanna Hall.