Our Next Production
Playing Up return to The Rondo between 24th and 27th November with Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Using the A text of 1604, this highly visual production will utilise masks, physical theatre, dance and spectacular effects to dramatise one of the most powerful plays from the golden age of Elizabethan theatre.
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Abducting Diane by Dario Fo (adapted by Stephen Stenning)
Playing Up presented this satirical comedy at The Rondo between 24th and 27th February 2010.
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The direction was slick and the acting was terrific |
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The histrionic pace and highly physical humour would challenge Jim Carrey himself…the collective boldness here is to be applauded. |
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Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Playing Up presented this fantastic and popular British play at The Rondo between 11th and 14th November 2009.
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Excellent cast...the audience would have needed a heart of stone not to be moved. |
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Arabian Nights by Mary Zimmerman
Playing Up performed these funny and exotic tales at The Rondo between 11th and 14th March 2009.
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An exceptionally well orchestrated production...visually entrancing |
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Playing Up presented Albee's masterpiece at The Rondo between 11th and 14th November 2008.
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A modern classic and in the hands of Bath's Playing Up it transcends its 46 years to feel as acerbic and moving as if it was written for our times. |
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Superbly cast; all four of the actors succeed brilliantly. |
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Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff
Playing Up staged six electrifying performances of this World War 1 masterpiece to complete sell out houses between 5th and 14th March 2008.
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A justifiable sell out...it commanded rapt attention |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman
Playing Up staged this highly relevant play to sell out houses at The Rondo between 5th and 8th December 2007
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This version by Playing Up Theatre Company hits all the targets brilliantly…the whole ensemble gel superbly. |
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Two by Jim Cartwright
Playing Up staged this brilliant and poetic one act play at The Rondo between 19th and 21st July 2007
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This emotionally charged piece was brilliantly acted... a play that left me emotionally drained. |
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Playing Up returned to The Rondo between Wednesday 28th February and Saturday 3rd March 2007 and then at The Arc Theatre Trowbridge on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th March. We performed Arthur Miller's classic and deeply moving play The Crucible.
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This powerful play gets an equally powerful, faultless treatment from Playing Up...the play's grip never loosens. |
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Trumpets and Raspberries by Dario Fo
Playing Up returned to The Rondo between Wednesday 8th and Saturday 11th November 2006 performing the hilarious farce, 'Trumpets and Raspberries' by Dario Fo.
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The acting was faultless...a superb job |
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Playing Up staged this poignant and moving play to sell out houses at The Rondo Theatre between 22nd and 25th February and at The Arc Theatre Trowbridge on 2nd March 2006.
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GCSE students and Steinbeck fans will find this a sensitive and sympathetic rendering of the story. |
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Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
Playing Up staged this bittersweet comedy at The Rondo between 7th to Saturday 10th September 2005.
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Playing Up did a sterling job...characters were brilliantly played...the cast did Steel Magnolias proud. |
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Serjeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden
Playing Up staged this classic anti-war play at The Arc Theatre, Trowbridge on Thursday 9th June 2005 and then at The Rondo Theatre, Larkhall, Bath from Wednesday 15th to Saturday 18th June.
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Immaculate cast and acting, lighting and sound..a high quality production |
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Sleuth
by Anthony Shaffer
Playing Up staged this brilliant murder mystery from 29th September to
2nd October 2004, performed at The
Rondo Theatre, Bath.
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A really enjoyable, entertaining, satisfying play...a good night out at the theatre |
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Waiting
For Godot by Samuel Beckett
Playing Up staged this most important play of the Twentieth Century from
26th to 28th November 2003, performed at The
Rondo Theatre, Bath.
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Professional standards..excellent timing...a memorable evening |
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