The highlight of the new season in the Ustinov Studio will undoubtedly be the Ustinov's own production of Landscape and Monologue a double bill of rarely-seen classics by Harold Pinter, directed by Chris Goode.

George Irving (Holby City) is joined by Maggie Henderson in Landscape and Clive Mendus performs Monologue.

Multi award-winning South African writer, director and performer Greig Coetzee visits the Ustinov twice in the season with two plays which have both won Edinburgh Fringe First awards and garnered huge critical acclaim. In White Men With Weapons about the old South African Defence Force, he plays 13 different characters.

In Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny he combines Shakespearean verse and American Rap into a South African Natural Born Killers using Johannesburg slang.

Also bearing numerous awards, Deborah Pearson's poignant Like You Were Before catches on film her last day before leaving Canada for the UK and is filled with the voices, words and youthful faces of friends and moments which are lost in time past and will never be lived again.

Another Someone has also won a Fringe First Award and brings its topical exploration of happiness to Bath with RashDash Theatre Company.

Muscle is a testosterone-filled new comedy set in a gym, written by Bristol-based Tom Wainwright which is presented by Hull Truck in association with Bristol Old Vic.

The Faction are radically reinventing the classics and here turn their talents to Schiller's The Robbers. Shocking in its day – 1782 – this is a fast and furious exploration of political idealism.

Also going back to the 18th century, A Dish of Tea with Dr Johnson brings to life the anecdotes and witty conversation of the great man of letters.

This production from Out of Joint stars Ian Redford (who has played Dr Johnson before) and Russell Barr and is directed by the acclaimed director Max Stafford-Clark.

Multi award-winning female collective, The Paper Birds, returns to the Ustinov following a residency earlier this year, with a visual, political exploration of women in Others.

Part comedy-thriller, part David Lynch, The Summer House is a play about men, myths and the weather.

In Under Milk Wood: Live on Air, Casualty's Robert Gwilym plays one of two warring actors preparing for the 10th anniversary radio broadcast of Dylan Thomas's classic 'play for voices' whose antagonism breaks out in front of a studio audience.

From radio to television when Toby Hadoke returns in Now I Know My BBC, a heartfelt love letter to Auntie Beeb from the award-winning creator of Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf (which has sold out three times in the Ustinov).

Also, comedian Andrew Lawrence, who has had great Edinburgh Festival success, brings The Too Ugly For Television Tour to Bath.

Winners of Best Lyrics in the Musical Theatre Matters Awards for three consecutive years, Barbershop's funniest quartet, Barbershopera brings their double award-winning new show, Apocalypse No!

Then to classical music of a more reflective nature, with The Maggini Quartet one of the UK's finest string quartets, who present the first of three planned concerts at the Ustinov this year.

New work by leading regional playwrights is showcased in the Ustinov's Script Factory writer development programme and includes Kate Mitchell's Respiteand Game Play which brings together three writers, three cast and three new plays. Mortalled is a dark and funny play about faith by Steve King and The Unremarkable, which has been commissioned from the Ustinov by Bristol-based Adam Peck. In Theatre Lab, Theatre Ad Infinitum present their work in progress, Translunar Paradise a play about loss, grief and the landscape of memory in a tale without words.