NEW productions of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal and Ealing comedy The Ladykillers lead the 2017-18 autumn/Winter season at Salisbury Playhouse.

Pinter’s portrayal of deception and desire, Betrayal, was inspired by his affair with BBC presenter Joan Bakewell and won an Olivier Award for Best New Play in 1979. It will be directed by Salisbury Playhouse associate director Jo Newman.

And a new version of The Ladykillers has been adapted for the stage by Graham Linehan (Father Ted, The IT Crowd) and is being co-produced with Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and the New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich.

Salisbury Playhouse will again bring the best UK touring productions to Wiltshire including Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott (Dial M for Murder), Around the World in 80 Days featuring a cast of eight playing more than 125 characters and A Princess Undone about the life of the late Princess Margaret inspired by actual events.

Returning after a sell-out run in the city last year is Ian Hislop’s and Nick Newman’s The Wipers Times.

The Christmas pantomime this year is Jack and the Beanstalk.

For younger theatre goers, new musical Little Robin Redbreast, in which Robin links advent calendar pictures in a magical quest, comes to The Salberg from the writers of last year’s The Night Before Christmas.

A varied and exciting programme in The Salberg includes a trampoline acrobat, tap dancing, a one-man show from Michael Mears about conscientious objectors and a new show from local theatre company Two Destination Language about a woman missing the one thing she values most, her father