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Return pf the Odstock Curse

Sarum Orchestra's musical director Howard Moody.

10:44am Thursday 25th February 2010

The Odstock Curse is a 19th-century folk legend from the village of Odstock, near Salisbury, and will be brought alive next week through music by composer and clarinettist Sarah Homer, fellow members of Sarum Orchestra, and guest musicians.

High note for young choir

Whistle Down The Wind

10:38am Thursday 25th February 2010

TWENTY-two young performing arts students aged between six and 13 will be sharing Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre stage with Jonathan Ansell next week in the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Whistle Down the Wind.

Exploring the inner world of memory

Polly Teale in rehearsal with the cast of The Glass Menagerie.

10:32am Thursday 25th February 2010

SHARED Experience joint artistic director Polly Teale has left her London base behind to join forces with Salisbury Playhouse in a new production of Tennessee Williams’s autobiographical play The Glass Menagerie, opening in the main house next Thursday before embarking on a national tour.

Favourite farce is just hilarious

Ida the maid (Jessica Richardson), Miss Skillon (Cath Angell), Mrs Toop (Rachel Fletcher) and Clive (George Goulding). DB7375P4

10:21am Thursday 25th February 2010

When Philip King’s See How They Run was first produced, in the dark days of blackout, Doodlebugs and threatened invasion, it was an immediate success, and has remained a favourite ever since.

Irish duo return

Salisbury-based singer and guitarist David Waddington.

10:15am Thursday 25th February 2010

SALISBURY’S Red Lion Hotel played host to an evening of outstanding Irish music on Friday when Paddy Keenan and Tommy O'Sullivan came to perform.

Tim returns to his acting roots

Moses (Tim Treslove) and Theodora (Amy Davidson) in A Clearing. DB5502P02

2:13pm Thursday 18th February 2010

TIM Treslove began his acting career aged 13 with Salisbury Playhouse’s youth theatre, Stage ’65, and is rightly proud.

The wisdom of ribbons

Laurence Rushby at the Lifelines Project at Salisbury Arts Centre. DB7369P4

2:07pm Thursday 18th February 2010

VISITORS to Salisbury Arts Centre this week will see something of a transformation inside the former St Edmund’s Church building in Bedwin Street.

Volunteers needed for heritage project

12:20pm Thursday 18th February 2010

ARE you interested in local history, in particular the history of the people and buildings in the area around the Milford Street bridge in Salisbury?

'Tender and terrifying'

Kneehigh theatre company.

12:18pm Thursday 18th February 2010

GROUND-breaking Cornish-based theatre company Kneehigh returns to Salisbury Playhouse next week with its highly original production of the classic fairytale Hansel and Gretel.

Portrait of Naipaul unveiled

The portrait of Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad (VS) Naipaul by Paul Emsley. Copyright National Portrait Gallery, London.

12:09pm Thursday 18th February 2010

Nobel prizewinning writer Sir V S Naipaul, who lives in the Woodford Valley, is the subject of a new BP commission portrait painted at his home.









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