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Performance May and June 2026 28 ‘THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY’ 27 April – 2 May Salisbury Playhouse, Malthouse Lane, SALISBURY, SP2 7RA. 7.30pm (matinees 2.15pm). £49 / £12. 01722 320333 / wiltshirecreative.co.uk . “An electrifying stage adaptation, delivering razor-sharp dialogue, simmering tension and a dangerously charismatic antihero.” ‘LIFE CLASS’ 1 - 3 May Corn Exchange, DORCHESTER, DT1 1HF. Friday and Saturday 7.30pm, Sunday 2.30pm. £15 / £13. 01305 266926 / dorchesterarts.org.uk. “The opportunity to enter a national competition unites the women and slowly they become aware that their art sessions really do have the power for change.” Salisbury International Arts Festival “Salisbury International Arts Festival is back with an exciting 2026 line-up! The centrepiece of the Festival will be an immersive production of Romeo and Juliet . Marking 50 years of Salisbury Playhouse, it will turn the theatre and its environs into the streets of Verona. Drama, music and parkour collide in this promenade production, which will feature a professional cast alongside over 100 community performers. Romeo & Juliet will play at Salisbury Playhouse between 24th May and 7th June. The Festival then spreads across the city with a varied programme of visiting artists, including Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at Salisbury Cathedral, and Continuum’s Shakespeare in Song . At Salisbury Arts Centre Australia’s The Spooky Men’s Chorale will celebrate (and mock) masculinity, and presenter Matthew Stadlen will be back, in conversation with authors Jonathan Freedland, Fergal Keane, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, and Graham Gooch. Lovers of comedy can catch Al fi e Moore with his new show Acopalypse Now , the award-winning Flat and the Curves with perform their Rosé Tinted musical comedy show, and Hambletts Productions return with By A Lady: The Life & Wit of Jane Austen . Dance highlights include Lost Dog’s Juliet & Romeo , Olivier Award-winning Little Bulb, and London City Ballet, who return to the Festival before its international tour. Theatre fans will be treated to Sh!t Theatre and Soho Theatre’s production of Or What’s Left of Us , The Lord Chamberlain’s Men will be back at Rack Close with Othello , and poet P Burton-Morgan perform Running Commentary , which promises to be a silly, sexy, sweaty romp.” 24 May - 27 June: Various locations across SALISBURY. wiltshirecreative.co.uk. CONTINUUM ‘THE CONSTANT WIFE’ 2 May Lighthouse, 21 Kingland Road, POOLE, BH15 1UG. 7.45pm (Saturday matinee 2.30pm). 01202 280000 / lighthousepoole.co.uk. BSO: ‘THE MUSIC OF LED ZEPPELIN’ 2 May Lighthouse, 21 Kingland Road, POOLE, BH15 1UG. 7.30pm. 01202 280000 / lighthousepoole.co.uk. LAURA BELBIN: ‘UNHINGED’ 4 May Komedia, 22 - 23 Westgate Street, BATH, BA1 1EP. 7pm. £23. 01225 489070 / komediabath.co.uk . Comedy. *EVOLVER_149_SB.qxp_Evolver_2025 14/04/2026 20:13 Page 52