Acclaimed stage versions of great films; a rock legend; adaptations of a great novel and an accomplished thriller; the Shakespeare Unplugged Festival; a wonderful lost masterpiece and Postman Pat are all part of the Spring Season at the Theatre Royal Bath.

Opening the season is A Perfect Murder, which runs from January 13-18.

Detective Roy Grace appears in the first work by one of the world’s greatest crime writers Peter James to be adapted for the stage.

This production will star Les Dennis, Claire Goose, Gray O’Brien, Steven Miller and Simona Armstong, and is directed by Olivier Award-winner Ian Talbot.

The Full Monty was a hugely popular British film about six unemployed Sheffield steelworkers. Now the stage version, written by its Oscar-winning writer, Simon Beaufoy, and featuring songs from the film, plays Bath from February 3-15, immediately before opening in the West End.

In 1987 Penelope Lively’s novel Moon Tiger won the Booker Prize. Simon Reade has adapted one of the great novels of the 20th century, for the stage. One of the UK’s most accomplished actresses, Jane Asher as historian Claudia Hampton, who is looking back over her life and loves, her triumphs and tragedies, against a background of major world events. The play runs between January 21 and 25.

In March Alistair McGowan stars as Professor Henry Higgins in a major revival of Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.

The story of Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flower girl whom the professor attempts to pass off as a society lady, has entertained audiences for 100 years.

The last Eliza to appear in Bath – Michelle Dockery – went on to become Lady Mary Crawley in Downton Abbey. McGowan will play opposite Rula Lenska as Mrs Higgins.

Jenny Seagrove and Sara Crowe star in Noel Coward’s comedy classic, Fallen Angels.

Both actresses are experienced performers of Coward’s witty comedies, here they play best friends Julia and Jane whose shared old flame resurfaces while their husbands are away.

Their answer is to bring on the bubbly.

Sunday concerts in the Main House include Queen’s legendary guitarist Brian May and rock goddess Kerry Ellis in a stunning, candlelit acoustic concert in support of the Born Free Foundation on February 23.

For full details of the season and bookings, see www.theatreroyal.org.uk and call 01225 448844.