AN "honest and raw" play exploring women’s relationships with one another is coming to Salisbury Playhouse.

A Dangerous Woman tells the story of one woman’s struggle to carve her own path in a family of six women.

It is based on the personal stories of writer and performer Manjeet Mann, who brings the tour to The Salberg from tomorrow (April 26) to Saturday(April 28).

“It is about growing up in a family of six women and the choices we all made as girls and then as women growing up, and the violence within that family that each of the women inflict on one another keeping each other down," explains Manjeet.

“You can choose to be allies or to be enemies. We chose to be enemies I guess and it is about fighting against that.”

In the play Manjeet explores what it means to be strong and dangerous.

But, she admits when she started developing the play she never intended for it to be a “personal” show.

As she explains: “I was inspired by what it meant to be a dangerous woman.

“What does it mean to be dangerous - any woman or person that decides to have a voice. I started writing a solo show which was going to be four monologues of four dangerous women.

“It wasn’t really coming. When I was working on the show with my director I would tell stories from my own past. She said you should really be telling your story.

“Slowly the story started to emerge. It was really my director saying the stories you have to tell are actually very universal and that a lot of women will be able to identify with them. I never planned on writing an autobiographical show at all but it has turned out that way.”

Manjeet has developed A Dangerous Woman with support from the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Soho Theatre Young Company, Arcola Theatre and Quarterhouse Theatre, following a successful UK tour of her debut one-woman show Flying Solo, which was performed in The Salberg. She says it is “lovely” to be returning to the Playhouse.

Summing up the show, she says: “It is honest and raw, and even though it goes to very dark places it does have a lot of light relief.”

Tickets are available by calling the box office on 01722 320333 or by visiting salisburyplayhouse.com