The temporary, tent-like structure of Theatre in the Park is to be taken down in just over a month, as work continues on the upgrading and refurbishment of the Festival Theatre.
For almost a month the cast of Barnum has played to almost 1,400 people a night in the newly-constructed, but temporary, tent-like structure, but there is one more show yet to take place there, previewing from 11 September.
Tim Firth's comedy Neville's Island, with a cast including Adrian Edmondson and Rufus Hound, runs from 11 to 28 September, while Arturo Ui is simultaneously running in the Minerva Theatre and rehearsing for a change of venue from the Minerva's thrust stage to the proscenium arch of the Duchess Theatre in London.
The next show in the Minerva, Another Country written by Julian Mitchell and directed by Jeremy Herrin, has just opened in Bath before transferring to Chichester where it runs from 18 September to 19 October.
Meanwhile, work on the Festival Theatre continues and is even ahead of schedule.
The theatre is confident that, "once the audience experience the revamped Festival Theatre (refurbished seats, air-conditioning, new lifts, new bar area, more and better WCs, improved outdoor areas etc) all thoughts of resurrecting the pearly white Theatre in the Park will evaporate like the last of the summer's Pimms."