Rare productions of two of Harold Pinter's lesser known works are being performed at Bath's Ustinov Studio from next Wednesday.

A distinguished cast including George Irving, Maggie Henderson and Clive Mendus explores Pinter's life-long fascination with the theme of memory in Landscape and Monologue, two vintage masterpieces by the Nobel Prize winning writer.

Broadcast on radio in 1968 and first performed on stage in 1969, Landscape shows the difficulties of communication between two people in a marriage.

In this spellbinding short play Beth remembers an idyllic day on the beach with a former lover, walking into the water and arranging flowers. Duff recalls his life as a cellarman, drinking stories, the day he told his wife he'd been unfaithful.

Pinter's Monologue was first shown on BBC Television in 1973 and was subsequently presented at the Kings Head Theatre, Hampstead.

In this elegantly wrought and dramatically powerful piece a solitary man addresses an absent friend in an empty chair, dwelling on memories of old times when the two may have shared a lover.

Maggie Henderson plays Beth. Her career spans plays by Christopher Hampton and Tom Stoppard in the West End and her BAFTA award-winning children's programme, Ragtime.

George Irving, who is best known as Anton Meyer in Holby City, plays Duff. Other television credits include Dangerfield, Dalziel and Pascoe and the BAFTA nominated Wing and a Prayer. He recently starred in All My Sons at Bolton Octagon Theatre.

Clive Mendus is the Man in Monologue. He has worked extensively with Theatre de Complicite, the RSC, and the National Theatre and recently toured the UK in English Touring Theatre's The Three Musketeers.

Both plays are directed by Chris Goode who has been described as "one of the most exciting talents working in Britain today".

This double-bill is at the Ustinov Studio from Wednesday to Saturday February 2 to 19. Performances are each evening at 8pm, with matinees Thursdays and Saturdays from 2pm (after February 10). Tickets are on sale on 01225 448844, or online at www.theatreroyal.org.uk/ustinov