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SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE SPRING|SUMMER 2018 MOONFLEET A new musical World premiere www.salisburyplayhouse.com April/May 2018 01722 320 333 WWW.SALISBURYPLAYHOUSE.COM | 01722 320 333 1 HELLO... and welcome to the Spring/Summer Season at Salisbury THEATRE Playhouse. We are thrilled that the centrepiece of the season is a brand new musical – Moonfleet – based on Wiltshire-born J Meade Falkner’s classic story of smuggling along the Dorset coast. FEST Our commitment to new work as part of our Original Drama programme continues in The Salberg with the premiere of Hansel, which won Shiona Morton the Theatre Fest West Writers’ Prize in 2016. WEST Alongside this, we look forward to bringing some top touring 2018 productions to Salisbury, including the much anticipated return of Kneehigh with The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk and Gwen Taylor playing 9 – 24 FEBRUARY Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. As you may be aware, Salisbury Playhouse is currently working on plans to merge with Salisbury Arts Centre and Salisbury International Arts Festival, creating one of the largest pan-arts organisations outside London and engaging a wider audience than ever before. As plans come to fruition, we look forward to sharing them with you over what promises to be an exciting 2018. In the meantime, we hope to welcome you to Salisbury Playhouse very soon. Sebastian Warrack Gareth Machin Executive Director Artistic Director NOW IN ITS SEVENTH YEAR, SALISBURY CONTENTS PLAYHOUSE IS ONCE AGAIN JOINING Main House FORCES WITH SALISBURY ARTS Special Events 2–3 Education Education Education 25 CENTRE, THE POUND ARTS CENTRE, A Passage to India 4 Crimes Under the Sun 26 CORSHAM AND TOWN HALL ARTS, Of Mice and Men 5 Engine Brake 27 TROWBRIDGE TO CELEBRATE THEATRE Murder, Margaret and Me 6–7 FROM ACROSS THE SOUTH WEST. Quartet 8 Theatre for Families The Importance of Being Earnest 9 Red Riding Hood and the Wolf 29 Over two weeks in February the venues The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk 10 Tidy Up 30 will be bursting with exciting events for Gallowglass 11 The Little Mochi Man 31 all ages and a Theatre Symposium that Moonfleet 12–13 Disgusting Songs for Revolting Children 32 will see theatre makers, producers and Macbeth 14 performers discussing the hot topics of Whisky Galore! 15 Information the day. Love on the Links 16–17 Take Part Events 33 Take Part 34–35 For details of what’s happening at The Salberg Become a Member 36 Salisbury Playhouse see the centre Fall Out / Time-travelling Magicians 19 Thank You to our supporters 37 pages of this brochure. Photo: Scratchworks Theatre Company (22 Feb) Hansel 20–21 Welcoming to all 38 Hamlet 22 Seating plans 39 Theatre Fest West 2018 Centre Pages Ticket pricing 40–41 Black Men Walking 23 Performance diary 42–44 Salisbury Playhouse in partnership with A Dangerous Woman 24 Food & Drink inside back cover 2 WWW.SALISBURYPLAYHOUSE.COM | 01722 320 333 1 SPECIAL EVENTS FRIDAY 19 JANUARY AT 7.30PM MAIN HOUSE GRIFF RHYS JONES: SPECIAL WHERE WAS I? Join the star of Not the Nine O’Clock News for an evening of stories, anecdotes and outright lies. EVENTS Tickets £19.50 FRIDAY 12 JANUARY AT 7.30PM SATURDAY 20 JANUARY AT 7.30PM MAIN HOUSE MAIN HOUSE THE PASADENA ROOF AN EVENING WITH ORCHESTRA PAM AYRES Tickets £22 Tickets £25 A FEW SEATS LEFT A FEW SEATS LEFT MONDAY 15 & TUESDAY 16 JANUARY AT 8PM WEDNESDAY 16 MAY AT 7.30PM MAIN HOUSE MAIN HOUSE MICHAEL MCINTYRE: STACEY KENT WORK IN PROGRESS International jazz singer Stacey Kent in concert for one special evening, featuring music from her latest Tickets £26.50 album I Know I Dream. Tickets £23 SOLD OUT 2 WWW.SALISBURYPLAYHOUSE.COM | 01722 320 333 3 A simple8 and Royal & Derngate co-production in the Main House A Selladoor Production in the Main House MONDAY 22 – SATURDAY 27 JANUARY MONDAY 5 – SATURDAY 10 MARCH BASED ON THE NOVEL A PASSAGE TO INDIA BY E M FORSTER HHHHH “One cannot be friends with the English!” ‘A COMPANY The advice was harsh but clear, and Aziz ignored it. Now he lies POSSESSING THE in jail on a charge of sexual assault. Forster’s masterpiece poses A thrilling new production of the most iconic and powerful story a question more urgent today than ever: how can we love one SKILLS, DEDICATION in American literature. another in a world divided by culture and belief? AND INTELLIGENCE TO Multi award-winning ensemble simple8 transport us to Imperial Set in the trying times of the Great Depression, Of Mice And Men CREATE WONDER’ is a powerful portrait of the American spirit and a heart-breaking India, conjuring up the elephants and caves, courthouses and The Times temples with the simplest and boldest means – including original testament to the bonds of friendship and what it means to be human. music played live on stage by legendary composer Kuljit Bhamra. Mon – Sat at 7.30pm Mon – Sat at 7.30pm This landmark play by the Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck is the Full of humour and rich humanity, but with vast philosophical and Thu & Sat matinees at 2.15pm Thu & Sat matinees at 2.15pm story of George and Lennie, two migrant ranch workers who dream political scope, A Passage to India is one of the great novels of the Tickets £27 – £12 Tickets £27 – £12 of owning their own ranch. 20th Century. simple8’s thrilling new adaptation reimagines it for School groups £9 (Mon – Thu) School groups £9 (Mon – Thu) contemporary Britain. Age guidance 7+ Age guidance 12+ Still painfully relevant to modern times, this is a moving story about trying to hold on to your dreams and friendships during difficult times. Adapted by Simon Dormandy Post Show Talk Tuesday 23 January Post Show Talk Tuesday 6 March Directed by Sebastian Armesto and Simon Dormandy From the producers of Avenue Q, The Crucible, American Idiot and Audio Description & Touch Tour Audio Description & Touch Tour Original Music Composed by Kuljit Bhamra Thursday 25 January at 2.15pm & 7.30pm Thursday 8 March at 2.15pm & 7.30pm Flashdance comes this American classic for all time. Design by Dora Schweitzer 4 WWW.SALISBURYPLAYHOUSE.COM | 01722 320 333 5 A Salisbury Playhouse Production in association with York Theatre Royal in the Main House MURDER, MARGARET AND ME BY PHILIP MEEKS THURSDAY 1 – SATURDAY 24 FEBRUARY Director Agatha Christie turns sleuth to uncover a real life mystery in this Damian Cruden comedy thriller. Designer Agatha Christie and Margaret Rutherford, two of our greatest and Dawn Allsopp most celebrated national treasures, should never have been friends. Lighting Designer But they were. Their paths crossed when they found themselves Richard G Jones at the heart of one of British cinema’s most successful franchises. Sound Designer However, the Miss Marple films almost didn’t get made. Yvonne Gilbert Agatha didn’t want Margaret to bring her precious spinster to life and Margaret was mortified at the thought of upsetting her fans with something as sordid as murder. But this wasn’t her only reason for resisting the part. Margaret had a terrible secret. One that she’d lived with for a lifetime. Mon – Sat at 7.30pm Thu & Sat matinees at 2.15pm Murder, Margaret and Me is a story of friendship in the long-lost (from 8 Feb) world of the silver screen. As Agatha and Margaret play tug of war Tickets £27.00 – £11.50 with Marple, Agatha (being a woman who wasn’t without a secret or two herself) unearths the shocking truth buried in Margaret’s past. Age guidance 12+ Post Show Talk Wednesday 14 February BSL Interpreted Performance Tuesday 20 February at 7.30pm CAP Captioned Performance Wednesday 21 February at 7.30pm Audio Description & Touch Tour Thursday 22 February at 2.15pm & 7.30pm Backstage Tour Book for Murder, Margaret and Me, Moonfleet and Love on the Saturday 17 February at 11am Links at the same time and save up to a third – see page 41 6 WWW.SALISBURYPLAYHOUSE.COM | 01722 320 333 7 Mark Goucher and David Ian present An Original Theatre Company Production in the Main House an Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham Production in the Main House MONDAY 12 – SATURDAY 17 MARCH THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST BY RONALD HARWOOD BY OSCAR WILDE STARRING GWEN TAYLOR AND SUSAN PENHALIGON TUESDAY 20 – SATURDAY 24 MARCH The Importance Of Being Earnest by the brilliant Oscar Wilde and starring national treasure Gwen Taylor as the formidable Lady Bracknell makes a welcome return to Salisbury society in this wonderfully witty, deliciously decadent and classic revival from The Original Theatre Company (Night Must Fall). Take a turn with the much-loved Algernon, Earnest, Gwendolen and Cecily as town and country clash in a story of romance, Paul Nicholas (The Real Marigold Hotel), Wendi Peters (Coronation identity, perambulators and Street), Sue Holderness (Only Fools and Horses) and Jeff Rawle capacious handbags. (Harry Potter) star in a new production of this bitter-sweet comedy. Director Alastair Whatley Quartet is the charming story of four ageing opera singers. Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred reside in a magnificent retirement home where rumours are circling that a new resident is about to arrive. Word is, it’s a star. Jean then arrives. Old rivalries resurface, secrets are Tue – Sat at 7.30pm. revealed and chaos unfolds – but in true theatrical tradition, the show Mon – Sat at 7.30pm Thu & Sat matinees at 2.15pm Thu & Sat matinees at 2.15pm must go on. Can the once-famous quartet patch up their differences Tickets £27 – £12 in time for a special gala concert? Tickets £27 – £13 School groups £9 (Tue – Thu) Audio Description & Touch Tour Made into a hugely successful film starring Maggie Smith, Quartet is Audio Description & Touch Tour Thursday 15 March at 2.15pm & Thursday 22 March at 2.15pm & a poignant, funny and warm tribute to life-long friendships and growing 7.30pm 7.30pm old disgracefully! 8 WWW.SALISBURYPLAYHOUSE.COM | 01722 320 333 9 KNEEHIGH A Kneehigh and Bristol Old Vic Production in the Main House RETURNS A Middle Ground Theatre Company Production in the Main House THE FLYING BY RUTH RENDELL WRITING AS BARBARA VINE ‘MARVELLOUSLY LOVERS OF VITEBSK TUESDAY 3 – SATURDAY 7 APRIL GRIPPING… TENSE, COMPULSIVE AND WRITTEN BY DANIEL JAMIESON A world stage premiere from the pen of one of the world’s greatest thriller writers.