Wiltshire Creative today announce their Spring 2024 programme. Building on their recent in-house productions at Salisbury Playhouse, which include The Girl on the Train and Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, Wiltshire Creative’s programme for next spring includes three new in-house productions.
One Last Push is a world premiere of a new original comedy about the unexpected and often hilarious dramas of childbirth written by Chris Chibnall, creator of Broadchurch and the showrunner of Doctor Who, which will premiere at the Playhouse and will run from 15 February to 9 March with the press night on the 20 February.
Alan Ayckbourn’s A Chorus of Disapproval staged from the 25 April to 18 May is a farce following a hapless widower who joins an amateur operatic society in time for its production of The Beggar’s Opera with the press night on the 30 April. The third in-house production for Spring ’24 will be Wiltshire Creative’s Youth Theatre retelling of Philip Pullman’s Ghosts and Grimm Tales and this will run from 25 until 27 July.
Gareth Machin, the Artistic Director of Wiltshire Creative said: “I’m delighted that original drama is back centre stage at Salisbury Playhouse with the world premiere of Chris Chibnall’s new raucous comedy One Last Push alongside a packed and varied programme of high quality visiting work both at the Playhouse and Arts Centre, we know we are offering our audience a season brimming with entertainment.”
Highlights of the visiting programme include:
- The Adventures of the Little Red Hen, produced by Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company visiting Wiltshire for the first time
- Breathe by SK Shlomo which won 2022 “Spirit of the Fringe” award, blending beatboxing, storytelling and technology into a concert-cum-theatre piece
- A comedy programme of well-known names including Omid Djalili, Reginald D. Hunter, Paul Foot and Mark Watson, and debuts from Judi Love and Alasdair Beckett-King
- The British poet and Sunday Times bestseller Holly McNish’s The Lobster Tour, to promote the release of her new book Lobster: and other things that I’m learning to love
- A music programme headlined by Louise Jordan who is performing a series of sung stories to celebrate hidden women of history for International Women’s Day 2024
Full season details and ticket information can be found here
