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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 Theatre Royal Bath. "Staff are busy preparing to reopen our three auditoria once again and we are ...

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, Southampton's 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 offers four interwoven meditations on the nature of time, faith, and the quest for spiritual enlighten...

YORK'S 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 artists – who have been commissioned to write love letters celebrating the return to live performance...

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 trembling, portentous cadaver. Fiennes “performs” and renews the lines in a stage premiere design...

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 Sutton Hoo drama The Dig, was last on stage in Beat the Devil at the Bridge theatre, London, in 2020. ...