Dracula
Thursday 8th October - Saturday 10th October
The Edge Theatre
Directed by Phaedra Florou
Liz Lochhead's adaptation brings Bram Stoker's classic to the stage, rich with tension and haunted by the spectre of madness. Solicitor Jonathan Harker is travelling to Hungary, where he expects to carry out some routine business with an enigmatic aristocrat. He is mistaken. Count Dracula is of course more than he appears, and harbours sinister intentions for Harker’s wife-to-be, Mina, and her sister Lucy. Harker finds himself locked in conflict with an ancient evil, bent on enslaving those he holds dear. Can he, with the help of his friend Dr. Seward and the powerful Van Helsing, stop Dracula before he unleashes his terror on one and all?
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Black Comedy
Friday 29th - Saturday 30th October
The Edge Theatre
Directed by Jamie Leich
This (Fresher's) show is written to be staged under a reversed lighting scheme: the play opens on a darkened stage. A few minutes into the show there is a short circuit, and the stage is illuminated to reveal the characters in a "blackout." On the few occasions when matches, lighters, or torches are lit, the lights grow dimmer. The title of the play is a pun. Brindsley Miller, a young sculptor, and his debutante fiancée Carol Melkett have borrowed some expensive, antique furniture from his neighbor Harold's flat without his permission in order to impress an elderly millionaire art collector coming to view Brindsley's work, and Carol's father Colonel Melkett. When the power fails, Harold returns early, and Brindsley's ex-mistress Clea shows up unexpectedly, things slide into disaster for him.?
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Beauty and the Beast
Thursday 26th - Saturday 28th November
Directed by Michelle Walder and Thomas Langmans
Beauty is born lucky. She is born into a wealthy Parisian family with loving brothers, parents (and a couple of bratty sisters!) However, when tragedy strikes, causing her father to loose the family fortune, all hope seems dead as her once idyllic world shatters around her. That is until an unexpected opportunity arises for her father to regain the family fortune, but at what cost? BUST's magical Royal Shakespeare Company retelling of this family classic, a tale of love, family and talking furniture.
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Anna
Thursday 14th - Saturday 16th April
Museum of Bath at Work
Written by Ben Roberts and Directed by Lydia Williams and Ben Roberts
One night in the quiet Wiltshire town of Wilmington Down, a fire broke out at a leavers house party for students at Wilshire Community College. What started as a small blaze quickly turned into a blazing inferno that wiped out half of the town and took many lives. While the suvivors and grieving families are making ever effort to move on from what happened- junior investigator John Torrance comes across a diary amongst the carnage belonging to a girl named Anna. Through this diary he uncovers many secrets that as to how the fire started and discovers secrets that no-one could possibly understand.
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32C
Wednesday 9th - Friday 11th March
Weston Studio, The Edge, University of Bath
Written and Directed by Ben Cochrane
Toby is very 'talented'. However he lives in a world where 'talent' isn't recognised as a useful skill. Therefore living off 'talent' is not really a choice most people recommend unless you actually have 'talent'. Toby, although very 'talented', does not realise he is 'talented' and so instead of pursuing his dreams of getting paid for his 'talent', he starts working in a 'talentless' office. This office however is a bit too 'talentless', so 'talentless' in fact that it warranted a whole play to be written about it.
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Bouncers and Shakers
Wednesday 20th - Thursday 21st April
The Tub, Student Union, University of Bath
Directed by Angel Cascarino
Innovative new staging of John Godber's acclaimed plays, Bouncers and Shakers. Set at the peak of 1980's Thatcherite Britain, Bouncers and Shakers explore common themes of working class life in a time of 3 million unemployed, male and female stereotypes of society, and service work in an age of excess.
All proceeds donated to Macmillan Cancer Support
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Hamlet
Thursday 3rd and Saturday 5th June
Museum of Bath at Work
Directed by Jamie Leich
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”… Vengeful Hamlet, haunted by his father’s Ghost and his own melancholy, seeks justice against his conniving uncle who has usurped the throne and taken the Queen as his wife. Set in a mid 20th Century dictatorship, this shortened Shakespearean classic explores treachery, love, madness and revenge.
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Good Morning Bill
Friday 4th and Sunday 6th June
Museum of Bath at work, Bath city centre
Directed by Monica Cox
Good Morning Bill is a three act farce which will leave your cheeks aching from laughter. Bill is holidaying in Sussex where he’s met a very attractive, but rather common young girl, Lottie. Sensing her charms are diminishing, Lottie has a fit of hysterics and Doctor Sally is called in. Bill instantly falls for Sally but she remains aloof and so he returns home where his stupid old uncle believes that Bill is missing Lottie. Numerous complications arise when the two women meet late at night with Bill…
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