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Dateline:
29th August, 2006
Autumn in Bath
Two very different shows, both bound for the West End, are among the
highlights of the forthcoming season at Bath Theatre Royal.
- Felicity Kendal, who last appeared heat the theatre re a few years
ago in Peter Hall's production of Happy Days, stars in a revival
of David Hare's acclaimed Amy's View, an "enthralling
and witty drama" about love and loss.
- Comedian Mel Smith, who recently starred as Churchill in Allegiance
at the Edinburgh Fringe, appears in a new comedy by Gerald Sibleyras,
whose comedy Heroes - which can also be seen at Bath this autumn
- won the 2006 Olivier Award for best new comedy. Belinda Lang, best
known for TV series including 2 Point 4 Children, co-stars.
- Heroes, set in a military hospital in 1959, finds three veterans
from the First World War reflecting on their lives and stars Art Malik,
Christopher Timothy and Michael Jayston.
- Fresh from the Chichester Festival comes Entertaining Angels,
also en route to the West End. Written by Richard Everett, the comedy
stars Penelope Keith.
Other season highlights include the resurrection of Steptoe and Son
in Steptoe and Son in Murder at Oil Drum Lane which is co-scripted
by Ray Galton, one of the original script writers for the legendary
BBC TV series. There's dance too, with Ballet Rambert, music ranging
from baroque opera through jazz with Humphrey Lyttleton to Rodgers and
Hammerstein's Carousel; a seasonal outing for Cinderella and
the promise of a stunning spectacular mixing slapstick with visual extravagance
and beauty in Slava's Snowshow, created in America, which had
critics here fumbling for superlatives.
Pete Wood
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