BACKGROUND TO THE USTINOV STUDIO

Since 2011, the Ustinov Studio has become the most successful small-scale producing theatre in the country. The seasons of in-house produced World and UK premieres have received widespread national acclaim for the venue and its programming. Three productions which premiered in the Ustinov Studio have run concurrently in the West End – The Father, Bad Jews and The Mother. The shows received a plethora of five-star reviews and national awards and nominations. The Ustinov’s productions regularly transfer or are co-produced with London theatres, including recent collaborations with the St James Theatre, The Tricycle, Soho Theatre and in the West End with the Arts, the Haymarket and the Duke of Yorks.

AWARDS –

Kenneth Cranham, Best Actor, Olivier Awards and Critics Circle Award winner, and nominated Evening Standard Best Actor Award forThe Father

Tanya Moodie, Olivier Award nomination and Evening Standard Award winner for Best Actress in a Play for Intimate Apparel

UK Theatre Awards Best Play for In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), and nomination forThe Father

Evening Standard Best Play nomination for The Father

PRAISE FOR THE USTINOV STUDIO –

“Under the inspired artistic directorship of Laurence Boswell, a small acorn of a theatre is turning into a mighty oak” Mark Shenton, The Stage

“The Ustinov Studio has become a little black jewel box of glittering dramatic possibility” Sam Marlowe, The Times

“Laurence Boswell is doing remarkable things with unusual plays” Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph

★★★★★ “Laurence Boswell’s inventive programming is giving Bath a new theatrical buzz” Susannah Clapp, The Observer

“The Ustinov is a thrilling dramatic springboard” Georgina Brown, Mail on Sunday