Festival presents an award-winning line-up of Theatre
Salisbury International Arts Festival presents an exciting variety of theatre in an eclectic mix of venues, from Morecambe, winner of the 2010 Best Entertainment award at the Olivier’s, to Theatre Ad Infinitum’s recreation of Homer’s breathtaking adventure Odyssey.
Festival Director Maria Bota says: ‘In this Festival we celebrate word-spinning in all its guises, and I am very proud to present such a feast of theatrical events to choose from, both indoors and outdoors.
Recent Olivier Award winner Morecambe is a delicious and deliriously funny memorial to a man who held the mantle of 'Britain's best loved comic’ and is best known as one half of comedy duoMorecambe and Wise.Guy Masterson and Tim Whitnall have created a glorious moving portrait of the born entertainer... 'the tall one with glasses'.
Odyssey by Lecoq-trained company Theatre Ad Infinitum is a reinvention of the timeless Greek myth following the Greek warrior Odysseus in his relentless attempt to get home so he can see his wife and son again before he dies.
Stories of Prometheus' arrogance, Zeus' philandering, Thesis' fickleness and Narcissus', well, narcissism, all find their common everyday equivalents whether in the London Underground, a busy bar, at a family dinner table or in a child's bedroom in prize-winning and five-star reviewed Out of Chaos. ‘
Other highlights include:award winning Israeli theatre company Orto-Da who tell a fascinatingly dark tale of victory in WWII in UK première Stones;The World's Wife based on Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s poetic portraits of the partners of famous men; award-winning Flick Ferdinando, who unleashes a stable of unstable characters into her deliciously dark physical comedy Horse; and The Globe Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the grounds of Old Wardour Castle
The Festival also presents a fantastic range of theatre productions for children and families. Roald Dahl’s magical James and the Giant Peachgets the colourful Illyria treatment; the moon’s caretaker goes in search of a replacement light bulb in LaLaLuna; and Baby Bear goes off in search of a rocket to take him to the moon in Whatever Next!
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