Fri 3 October 2025 ➡ Sat 18 October 2025

Small Hotel

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The final production in the Ralph Fiennes / Theatre Royal Bath Season is this powerful new drama by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

Ralph Fiennes plays Larry, an acclaimed TV presenter and celebrity whose life and career are rapidly unravelling. As he is forced to unpick his past and confront his future, we meet a collection of unforgettable characters, including Larry’s troubled twin brother Richard, his unpredictable fomer lover, actress Marianne, and his domineering mother Athena.

Rebecca Lenkiewicz is an acclaimed playwright and screenwriter whose work has been performed all over the world. With Her Naked Skin in 2008, Rebecca became the first living female playwright to have an original play performed on the National Theatre’s Olivier stage. Her plays include The Night Season which won The Critics Circle Most Promising Playwright Award 2004 . Film work includes Ida which won an Academy Award in 2014 and She Said which won the Writers Guild Award in 2023.

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes' theatre credits include the role of Jack Tanner in George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman at the National Theatre and Prospero in Trevor Nunn’s production of The Tempest (Theatre Royal Haymarket). Fiennes’ Shakespearean credits are wide-ranging. For the RSC he has appeared in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Much Ado about Nothing and King John, and, for the Almeida, Richard III, Coriolanus and Hamlet. Fiennes’ portrayal of Hamlet on Broadway earned him a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award. His other work for the RSC includes Brand, The Plantaganets, The Man Who Came to Dinner and Playing with Trains. For the National Theatre, Ralph has appeared in Oedipus, The Talking Cure, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Fathers and Sons. Other theatre credits include Julius Caesar (Barbican) First Love (Lincoln Centre Festival New York and Sydney Festival), God of Carnage (Gielgud Theatre) and The Faith Healer (Gate Theatre Dublin and Booth Theatre Broadway). Fiennes’ extensive film credits include The Grand Budapest Hotel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I & II, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Skyfall, Coriolanus, Wrath of the Titans, Clash of the Titans, The Duchess, The Reader, The Hurt Locker, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, The Avengers and The English Patient. For his portrayal of Nazi War Criminal Amon Goeth in Schindler’s List, Fiennes received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. TV credits include Turks & Caicos, Page 8, Rev, Prime Suspect, A Dangerous Man, Lawrence after Arabia and The Cormorant.

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