Worst Wedding and Frankenstein featured at Salisbury

Published: 17 May 2016
Reporter: David Chadderton

Rosie Wyatt, Rebecca Oldfield and Carolyn Pickles in Worst Wedding Ever in 2014 Credit: Robert Workman

Salisbury Playhouse's autumn and winter season will feature a revivals of Chris Chibnall's Worst Wedding Ever and Ellyn Williams's Night Must Fall alongside new adaptations of The Night Before Christmas and Frankenstein.

Gwen Taylor and Daragh O'Malley will open the season in Williams's psychological thriller, which will be directed by Luke Sheppard in a touring co-production with Original Theatre Company.

Mary Shelley's gothic horror will be written and performed by Howard Coggins and Stu McLoughlin of Bristol's Living Spit, and Chibnall's comedy will return after a sell-out run in 2014, again directed by Salisbury artistic director Gareth Machin.

Machin will also co-create a new musical adaptation of The Night Before Christmas with Glyn Kerslake for the Christmas season, running in rep with a Victorian compilation of sketches, songs and melodrama, A Little Bit of What You Fancy.

Touring productions visiting the Playhouse will include Ian Hislop's The Wipers Times, English Touring Theatre's adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Sand in the Sandwiches featuring Edward Fox as John Betjeman.

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