Bath's theatre society/family. We run fun weekly informal workshops, put on many performances throughout the year (including at Bath Fringe Festival), and have plenty of funky socials.
Our 2025/26 Productions
BUST Semester 1 Shows
Hamlet
Returner's Show: 2nd - 4th October 2025, The Weston Studio (The Edge)
The king is dead, the queen remarried and the prince still mourns his father. When Prince Hamlet learns of the treacherous way in which his father died, he seeks retribution. But is there a way it can be carried out that does not leave him feeling as guilty as the offender? As Hamlet faces this moral dilemma, he scorns love and makes enemies of those that were once his friends, leading some to seek revenge on him. Does this cycle end? Are there ever winners when it comes to vengeance or only survivors?
Dying to Marry You
Freshers Show: 20th - 22nd November 2025, The Weston Studio (The Edge)
One person’s proposal is another’s murder...
‘Dying to marry you’ is a student-written play by Bethany Hine set in modern times in the rather posh and “gothic” house of Ruth Lovelace. It is a comedy inspired by her love of Oscar Wilde movie adaptations, exaggerated and modernised into this farce of sarcasm and miscommunication.
The play follows a group of students holidaying together during the Summer before their final year at university. It centres around Peter as he attempts to propose to his girlfriend Ruth, yet through a series of misunderstandings she becomes convinced that he is instead plotting to kill her. In the chaos of rings, guns and a lot of miscommunication, will the couple find themselves wed or dead?
Tickets coming soon!
The Wizard of Oz: The Panto
Christmas Show: 11th - 13th December 2025, The Edge Theatre
Your classic Wizard of Oz but with a few panto twists! Dorothy leaves her life and her love (oooOOOoo) behind when a tornado hits Kansas. She lands in Oz where she meets a whole host of colourful panto-y characters including: a very drunk wizard, munchkin henchmen, a dame-ified Glinda and the Wicked Witch of the West! We follow Dorothy through Oz as she attempts to make sense of the shenanigans and to get back home despite the Witch’s attempts to foil her plans.
Other Productions
School Show - Room on the Broom
This small but super fun show is going to be performed at a local primary school.
Semester 2 Shows
24 Hour Show
Ever wanted to sleep over in a theatre? Well now is your chance with this chaotic, improv-ed show! We enter the Weston Studio at 7pm on Friday 6th February and somehow 24 hours later, a short play will be performed at 7pm on Saturday 7th February! It's a tonne of fun and super low stakes, with a chance to try out acting, directing or producing. All money raised from tickets sold goes to a charity of our choice.
Blue Stockings
Town Show: 26th February - 28th February, The Mission Theatre
1896, Girton College, Cambridge; the first college in Britain to admit women. The Girton girls study ferociously and match their male peers grade for grade yet go home empty handed. Tess Moffat and her fellow first years are determined to win the right to graduate. But little do they anticipate the hurdles in their way: the distractions of love, the cruelty of the class divide or the strength of the opposition. Blue Stockings is a comedic, impactful, and emotional play which follows the girls over the course of a tumultuous academic year, in their fight to change the future of education for girls and women.
Watch this space for the ticket link!
Dead Dog in a Suitcase (And Other Love Songs)
March Show: 19th March - 20th March, The Weston Studio
“What the HELL is the world coming to”
MAYOR GOODMAN IS DEAD. Contract killer Macheath, fresh off a tough day at work has just married Polly Peachum, and they can’t wait to escape to somewhere better... but they’re not going anywhere. Not if the Pilchard Tycoons Mr and Mrs Peachum have their way. See their daughter marrying the Mayor’s killer doesn’t look great for Mr Peachum’s Mayoral campaign, and with Chief of Police Colin Lockit going mad trying to find him, could it get any more chaotic? Before the day is out Macheath will face the hangman’s noose, some unintentional offspring, a battle with morality and the nasty end of a revolver. All in this madcap show filled with music, puppets and madness.
Bath Fringe
After exams have ended in May, BUST put on three plays in just a week! Comprised of three different casts and only a week for rehearsals, this busy but fun filled week is the perfect end to a year of wonderful theatre.
Pitches for Fringe will happen in Semester 2, so keep an eye out!