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Dateline: 3rd October, 2008
South West News The lights may still be out at Bristol Old Vic but there's no shortage of theatre, musical theatre, dance and comedy lined up over the autumn and winter. Arguably the pick of the musical offerings is Glyndebourne's The Magic Flute which comes to Bath's Forum on Sunday, November 9 as part of the annual Bath Mozartfest. The production is a revival of Adrian Noble's 2004 staging. There's more opera in prospect at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol, which welcomes back the Opera Project and their production of Puccini's Tosca while November sees the WNO roll into town with three autumn productions including Verdi's Otello; Janacek's Jenufa and Rossini's The Barber of Seville. Over at the Theatre Royal Bath, musical entertainment of a different hue is on offer in late October when the West End-originated production of Cabaret arrives, followed in November by English Touring Opera with Rusalka by Dvorak and Carmen by Bizet. Also appearing will be a production of the perennially-favourite 42nd Street, while dance aficionados are catered for with a Northern Ballet Production of The Nutcracker and a brand new production by the Ballet Rambert Company, currently on its Eternal Light Tour 2008. The Theatre Royal Bath season continues with productions of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, starring Kate O'Mara and Fenella Fielding; Ackybourn's Absurd Person Singular; a new adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles and a Christmas offering of Jack and the Beanstalk starring Colin Baker. Meanwhile the Studio at the theatre hosts a new production of David Harrower's Knives in Hens, his debut play; the award-winning England by Tim Crouch, and Carthage Must be Destroyed, winner of the Best New Play Award, Scottish Theatre Awards 2007. The play is billed as a heady mix of bloody real-politicking, double-dealing and sex. Lorne Campbell directs. The Tobacco Factory in Bristol offers a typically eclectic season with a programme that includes Filter's whimsical and musical take on Twelfth Night - with pizza; Oh What a Lovely War; Goodbye Mrs Chips and A Christmas Carol. Among the comedians appearing are the great John Shuttleworth; Ed Byrne; Rich Hall and Otis Lee Crenshaw, Jeff Green and Tim Minchin. Pete Wood
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