MONDAY 5 – SATURDAY 10 MAY THEATRE ROYAL BATH PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE by Alan Ayckbourn DIRECTED BY LAURENCE BOSWELL
STARRING
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA
One of the world’s greatest stars; one of the world’s greatest playwrights and one of the greatest plays of the nineties - Things We Do For Love promises to be one of the theatrical highlights of the year.
‘It is sharp and it is gorgeously funny’
In South West London Barbara, elegant and glacial, lives in immaculate order on the middle floor of her converted house. Downstairs, lovelorn postman and part-time plumber Gilbert has created a shrine to his landlady. Upstairs, the flat is empty, a perfect bolthole for Nikki, Barbara’s old school-friend, and her fiancé Hamish. Unfortunately Hamish is everything that Barbara despises (bearded, Scottish and vegetarian) and Hamish takes an instant dislike to the ever-intolerant Barbara - a hostility which hides deeper feelings. This bedroom farce soon develops into something more complex as the two adversaries fall head over heels in lust. This is the UK’s greatest living playwright at the peak of his art, making hilarity and ingenuity from the things we do for love.
‘Ayckbourn’s best play of the decade… a Private Lives for the nineties’
THE TIMES
GUARDIAN
‘Gloriously entertaining’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
MONDAY – SATURDAY, 7.45PM AND SATURDAY, 2.30PM: £15/£25/£30/£35
Natalie Imbruglia has enjoyed success both as an actress and singer, receiving three Grammy nominations and two Brit Awards for her musical achievements. Acting credits include Johnny English with Rowan Atkinson and the 2009 film Closed for Winter. Laurence Boswell has been the Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal Bath’s Ustinov Studio since 2011 and is an Associate Artist of the RSC. Directorial credits include Eddie Izzard in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and and Matt Damon and Jake Gyllenhaal in This Is Our Youth.
THURSDAY, 2.30PM: £15/£20/£25/£30 All tickets are subject to a £2.50 booking fee
Book if you enjoyed: Bedroom Farce, Relatively Speaking
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