Trevor Nunn and new Sherlock Holmes play in Theatre Royal Bath new season

Theatre Royal Bath has announced its spring programme for 2018, including a show directed by Trevor Nunn and a new Sherlock Holmes thriller.

Nunn will direct Harley Granville Barker’s Agnes Colander, a recently unearthed Edwardian play about female independence. Edited by playwright Richard Nelson, the show runs in the venue's Ustinov Studio from 15 March to 14 April.

The play was written in 1900 but only recently found among Granville Barker’s papers in the British Library. It also marks Nunn's directorial debut at the Studio.

Robert Powell and Liza Goddard will star in the newly commissioned Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain, written by award-winning dramatist Simon Reade after Arthur Conan Doyle and directed by David Grindley. Set at the end of Holmes' life, the play pits the lead character against his arch-nemesis Moriarty. The show runs in the venue's main space from 25 April to 5 May.

Ustinov Studio artistic director Laurence Boswell will present the UK premiere of Samuel D Hunter’s The Whale. The show won the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play and Drama Desk Special Award for Significant Contribution to Theatre when it opened off-Broadway, and is a comedy about a father's final chance at redemption after becoming a recluse. The show runs from 26 April to 26 May.