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Ralph Fiennes in rehearsal for Four Quartets Photo: Matt Humphrey THEATRE Royal Bath has today announced a packed programme of drama, comedies, thrillers, musicals and a Christmas pantomime programmed for the year ahead as it prepares to reopen in May in line with the government’s roadmap. Danny Moar, director of Theatre Royal Bath, said: “I am delighted to be able to announce an exceptional range of shows for our Lights Up season, as we keenly anticipate the return of audiences to the ...

A PLAY starring and directed by Oscar winner Ralph Fiennes, legendary science fiction thriller War of the Worlds and live science show Brainiac are among the highlights of the inaugural season for MAST Mayflower Studios, Southamptons brand new cultural hub. Theatre bosses at the venue, in Guildhall Square, have announced six performances of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets starring and directed by acclaimed actor Ralph Fiennes, in July 2021. Compelling, moving and symphonic, Four Quartets off...

YORKS Theatre Royal is all set to open its doors to the public next month. A celebration of York’s creativity, solo shows featuring Ralph Fiennes and Julie Hesmondhalgh, a new drama about writer Graham Greene and spy Kim Philby and Strindberg’s Miss Julie transposed to 1940s Hong Kong are among highlights in the reopening Love Season at York Theatre Royal. The theatre will reopen on May 17 with Love Bites, celebrating local artists – poets, performers, singers, dancers, digital arti...

The best theatre in the UK this May Ralph Fiennes takes on TS Eliot, and The Death of a Black Man at Hampstead Theatre Four Quartets, Theatre Royal, Bath, 25th May to 5th June, and on tour TS Eliot liked the idea that his poetry might go beyond poetry just as Beethoven, in his late string quartets, wrote music beyond music. In this socially-distanced show, Ralph Fiennes plumbs the mystery, the sense of loss and foreboding during the interwar period. Eliot’s Four Quartets is written with a t...

Last modified on Thu 18 Mar 2021 01.14 EDT Ralph Fiennes is to direct and star in a solo theatre adaptation of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets that will tour the UK this summer. A co-production by Theatre Royal Bath and the Royal & Derngate in Northampton, Four Quartets will be staged first at those venues in May and June, then visit Oxford Playhouse and Cambridge Arts Theatre and other destinations yet to be announced. Fiennes, who recently played archaeologist Basil Brown in the Bafta-nominated Su...

Four Quartets this summer. The production will reopen the Theatre Royal Bath from 25 May to 5 June, and also launches Royal & Derngates Made in Northampton season from 8 to 12 June in a co-production between both venues. Four Quartets will then tour to Oxford Playhouse (14 to 26 June) and Cambridge Arts Theatre (28 June to 10 July), with further regional touring dates to be announced. One of the Nobel Prize winners later works, Four Quartets was mostly written before World War Two when the cl...

Murray Bail’s book of memory and forgetting We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Peter Craven Save Normal text size Text, $27.99 Murray Bail has for decades been one of the most significant writers in Australia and one of the strangest. He’s the author of novels such as Homesickness, Holden’s Performance, and Eucalyptus. You can read his every word with admiration and stupefaction. His last book, The Voyage, gleamed, as th...

Country Life Trending: Credit: RMRayner Photography / Getty Following his nose sees Jason Goodwin end up in the quirkily-named village of Pendomer, a place with a distinctly English tale to tell. Some years ago, on holiday in the Highlands, the assertive Australian art dealer Rebecca Hossack asked me whether I liked driving. I thought about it. I said I liked being able to look at the changing pageant out of the window, I liked having a comfy chair so close to the radio and I liked th...

by Matthew D. Wright “I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord forever! With my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations!” (Psalm 89:1). These words of the Psalmist express the heart of what I want to say here—and, indeed, contain the essence of the title I’ve given these remarks: “The Habit of Community .” Before we unpack the Psalmist’s words, however, I want to back up a bit to get a few ideas on the table. T. S. Eliot has made me more sensitive latel...

January 25, 2021 Magic touch: Beethoven once wrote a letter inviting a colleague who had lost a child while giving birth. He played on the piano only for her for several hours. And she was able to return to her family, emotionally healed Magic touch: Beethoven once wrote a letter inviting a colleague who had lost a child while giving birth. He played on the piano only for her for several hours. And she was able to return to her family, emotionally healed× A virus swept aside 2020 plans to mark...