Entertaining Angels, Monday, October 23 until Saturday, November 4, Theatre Royal Bath.

Actress Penelope Keith stars in Richard Everett's new play Entertaining Angels which visits the Theatre Royal Bath from Monday October 23 to Saturday November 4 as part of its first UK tour.

"I've made four thousand six hundred medium-sized quiches and personally baked two tons of light-crust pastry. For what?"

As a clergy wife, Grace has spent a lifetime on her best behaviour. Now, following the death of her husband, Bardolph, she is enjoying the new-found freedom to do and say exactly as she pleases. But the return of her eccentric missionary sister, Ruth, together with some disturbing revelations forces Grace to confront the truth of her marriage.

With sharp-edged comedy and probing wit, Entertaining Angels was a huge hit at Chichester Festival Theatre this spring and now tours to Bath prior to a West End transfer.

Penelope Keith plays the role of Grace. Known to millions for her roles in the long running TV series The Good Life and To the Manor Born, her numerous television credits also include, No Job For A Lady; Next of Kin; Moving; Coming Home; and Marjorie and Gladys.

Her stage career has included seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon and at London's Aldwych Theatre. She has directed Relatively Speaking, How the Other Half Loves and In Praise of Rattigan. Most recently, she appeared in the Peter Hall Company production of Blithe Spirit, which opened at the Theatre Royal Bath in August 2004 prior to a UK tour and West End run.

Polly Adams plays the role of Ruth. Her hugely successful stage career has included roles in London, throughout the UK and in New York. She performed in Graham Greene's The Complaisant Lover with Sir Ralph Richardson and Paul Schofield at the Globe Theatre, as well as roles for the RSC, the National Theatre and in the West End. For TV her work includes Just William, Inspector Alleyn, The Camomile Lawn, Miss Marple, Upstairs Downstairs and Pride and Prejudice. She last performed at the Theatre Royal Bath as Grace Winslow in The Winslow Boy in October 2002.

Geoffrey Whitehead plays the role of Bardolph. His recent stage work has included King Lear at Shakespeare's Globe, and Bedroom Farce and This Is Where We Came In for the Stephen Joseph Theatre. He has also worked extensively with the RSC and previous performances at the Theatre Royal Bath include and Henry V in December 1997.

His TV credits include roles in War and Remembrance; Shelley; The Sweeney; Rotters Club; Little Britain; Drop the Dead Donkey and Z Cars. Most recently, he has appeared as Dick in three series of the BAFTA nominated sitcom, Worst Week of My Life.

The cast also includes Caroline Harker, who recently appeared in the BAFTA nominated drama The Queen's Sister and was seen in seven series of A Touch of Frost, (she last performed at the Theatre Royal Bath in Present Laughter in 2003); Michael Lumsden, who has worked extensively for TV and theatre, most recently starring as Alistair Lloyd in BBC Radio 4's The Archers; and Abigail Thaw, who recently performed in The Arab-Israeli Cookbook at the Tricycle Theatre.