Amongst the plays in the upcoming season at Salisbury Playhouse are Barney Norris's new play, Echo's End, set on the edge of Salisbury Plain in 1915 and a new commission based on a true story from Hattie Naylor, As the Crow Flies, a co-production with Pentabus Theatre Company.
Worst Wedding Ever by Chris Chibnall returns and visiting productions include The Play That Goes Wrong, The Verdict starring Clive Mantel, Jack Shepherd and Richard Walsh, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical and Twelfth Night from The Watermill Theatre.
February sees the return of Theatre Fest West 2017 with events at Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury Arts Centre, The Pound Arts Centre Corsham and Trowbridge Arts. Participants include Theatre Alibi, Pipeline Theatre and, for family audiences, Stuff and Nonsense.
The season also sees Salisbury Playhouse produce a revival of Rodney Ackland's Before the Party (4 to 27 May). Based on the short story by Somerset Maugham, this sizzling portrayal of the upper middle classes adjusting to post-war life is directed by Ryan McBryde.
The programme also includes
- Under Milk Wood
- Meet Fred
- Leaf
- The Verdict
- The Misfit Analysis
- William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged)
- The Giant Jam Sandwich
- A Strange New Space
- Oyster Boy
- Tom Thumb
- Government Inspector
- Ventoux
- Before the Party
- While We’re Here
Theatre Fest West
- Monmouth
- 3 Little Pigs
- The Super Mega Rockin’ Rock Show
- Castle Builder
- This Moment Now
- Thor & Loki – a new musical (sharing)
- We are Ian
- All the Journeys I Never Took
- Fish Eye
- Cuncrete
- Spillikin – a love story
- Wail
There is also a comedy, spoken word and music programme.