SALISBURY Fringe Festival of New Writing is celebrating its sixth year with eight stimulating free events this weekend.

Fringe director Andrew Thackeray and his team have pulled together an amazing weekend of sheer delight.

A huge coup this year is Sally Lewis’s Glasgow ‘14, straight from the Edinburgh Fringe:a one man show, inhabiting the minds of four very different men and their experiences of mental illness.

It will be performed at First Cuts (Friday, 7.30pm) alongside an exciting new play, ‘What’s Not to Like’ by Pete Talman and Monologue ‘The Gown’ by Linda Morse. This will take place at The Pheasant Inn (next to Salt Lane carpark).

The festival’s showpiece, Short Cuts, is six new short plays from the cream of local playwriting talent, with two performances (Saturday, 6pm and 8pm).

Rough Cuts (Sunday, 3.30pm) has scratch performances of new plays, and the now famous Monologue Mash, where the actors go head-to-head in a monologue battle and you vote for your favourite writer, is on Sunday at 5.30pm.

There are more new Monologues, this time inspired by Salisbury museum’s exhibition ‘Hoards: A Hidden History of Ancient Britain’ which will take place at The Salisbury Museum (Saturday, 2pm).

BIBIAS Theatre Company. Four talented adults with learning disabilities present Kitchen Heroes at the Salisbury Arts Centre (Saturday 11.30pm-12.30pm)

Learn the art of gag writing in a joke writing workshop led by Dan Page (BBC Newsjack, The News Quiz) in the conference room at Boston Tea Party, 4.30pm-5.30pm.

And join Poetika in @Home on Sunday 2pm-3pm, where the Salisbury-based group present a selection of spoken word pieces.

Visit salisburyfringe.co.uk for more details