Award-winning one act plays come home to Ashley Road studio

SALISBURY audiences are in for a treat at the beginning of June as Studio Theatre in Ashley Road puts on a number of its award-winning plays

Each play consists of one-act and were all entered in the Totton Festival of Drama, which was held last month.

Fresh from their performances in Hampshire, cast and crew now bring the successful plays back to Salisbury to their home theatre.

Murder! In Little Grimley by David Tristram, which scooped a Best Supporting Player award for Emilia Fletcher at the festival held in March, will be staged on 2 June at 8pm –tickets £8.

The play follows an amateur drama company that decides to stage a murder mystery only to find themselves at the centre of what might be the real thing.

The following week, the festival runner-up production English for Pony Lovers, taken from the radio series Double Acts by John Finnemore, will be performed on 8-9 June at 7.30pm.

German Elke takes English lessons from Lorna, who might not be the language tutor she’s cracked up to be.

The production, for which Rachel Fletcher took home the Best Actress award, will share the stage with The 39 Steps Even More Abridged by Patrick Barlow – a fast and furious one-act version of the smash hit comedy.

Tickets are £12 on 8 June and £20 to include supper and backstage tours on 9 June from Salisbury Information Centre (tel 01722 342860) or online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/ studiotheatresalisbury

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2 Firm given approval that is for biscuit (6)

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14 Fine stitching son removed in time to come

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21 Disreputable group nearly always detaining Frenchman (5)

22 Agitate monarch with routine upset in lead (7)

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1 Get a group of singers for audition (7)

5 Top card game book ignored (5)

9 Man in black say entertaining complete house gets to make unqualified commitment (2,3,5,3)

10 Fault about lone criminal showing unjustifiable force (8)

11 Stick container close to plate (4)

12 PM not for a largely new reform (9)

16 Draw advantage (4)

17 Emotional outbreak? Heart is broken infused with yen (8)

19 A ruling agenda moved devoted assistant (8,5)

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21 Disreputable group nearly always detaining Frenchman (5)

22 Agitate monarch with routine upset in lead (7)

15 Policy followed by a Republican in an unbroken sequence (6)

18 Grasp plain matter of fact (5)

20 Border that’s neat needing no introduction

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2 Firm given approval that is for biscuit (6)

3 A French man with unusual pull around France is disobliging (9)

4 Argument over a new tree (5)

6 Anger seen in diaries regularly (3)

7 Sufficient reason for foundation (6)

8 Up-to-date way of operating by service at sea (6)

11 Ink spilled in cupboard that’s joined together (5-4)

13 Moral outlook binding Norway regarding race (6)

14 Fine stitching son removed in time to come (6)

15 Policy followed by a Republican in an unbroken sequence (6)

18 Grasp plain matter of fact (5)

20 Border that’s neat needing no introduction (3)

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