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Last December, Twelfth Night, starring Sam West, premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace and home to the Royal Shakespeare Company. We had the privilege of seeing this production on New Year's Day. Now it transfers to the Barbican Centre in London for the Christmas season.

Last month we were able to visit the Dorfman Theatre for the first time, one of the National Theatre venues on London's Southbank, following its recent reopening after a temporary closure for maintenance. We were going to see David Lan's new play, The Land of the Living,  starring Juliet Stevenson and Tom Wlaschiha, whom we remember as the Many-Faced God from Game of Thrones.

In Small Hotel, Fiennes plays a once-famous television presenter whose career is on the decline. He reconnects with a now-famous Hollywood actress who was his girlfriend when she was starting out. Influenced by his mother and twin brother, Larry tries to get his life back on track at a crucial moment.

Written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, Mrs. Warren's Profession didn't make it to the stage until almost ten years later, when it was finally performed in London in 1902. IT is revisited again in the summer of 2025 at the Garrick Theatre in London¡s West End.

The Ralph Fiennes Season at the Theatre Royal Bath expands from late June to mid October 2025 and includes the world premiere of two new plays by wellknown playwrights (David Hare and Rebecca Lenkiewicz), a new production of Shakespeare's As You Like It and performances by Patti Smith and Kae Tempest.

In Spain it is known as Día de los Inocentes, but celebrated on the first day of April in most other countries and known as April Fool's Day