Witness the birth of a movement that enchanted an era of human history.

A storytelling stage show by Pete Bearder fusing music, comedy, and ecstatic poetry with a live performance-lecture on William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, two poet-revolutionaries.

Together they unfold a spellbinding history of riot, state repression, and psychedelic experimentation – one that still speaks to our age of upheaval.

Tickets £16.50 – £20.50

www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk/events/romantics-mystics-revolutionaries

Creative Kindling is a multi-form arts initiative providing space to experiment, try out and test new ideas for live performance. At our scratch night you might find new plays, dance, performance poetry, film or multi-form pieces from local performers and creatives.

We will be kicking off with a scratch night on the theme 'VIRAL' in October at Salisbury Arts Centre. Be an active audience, share your thoughts on the work or just enjoy.



Are you a creative?

Creative Kindling scratch night will act as a platform to try out experimental ideas, test them in front of an audience and gain feedback to gauge their potential for further development. With support and input from the Creative Kindling team to present your work to an audience perhaps for the first time.

Any artists interested in the project are invited to submit an expression of interest to info@hinterlandarts.org or via this form.

Led by local artists at Salisbury Arts Centre – take the space to experiment, play, gain feedback and gauge potential for future development of work for performance.

Ages 18+
Tickets £10

www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk/events/creative-kindling-scratch-night

"Tell me everything, Holmes"

1t’s 1906 - the Golden Age of Magic.? The Masked Magician bestrides London’s world of Magic like a colossus, UNTIL… one night, in mid-performance, the Magician vanishes. Dead? Kidnapped? In hiding?

?After a month, Scotland Yard is baffled (obviously) and calls in Sherlock Holmes to solve the mystery of the Masked Magician’s disappearance. Holmes (with an excitable Watson in tow) plunges into the secret world of Edwardian Magic only to find that the Masked Magician’s identity is Magic's best-kept secret.

??As they question the Magician‘s peers (seeing a lot of Magic), the mystery of his fate deepens. As they unravel clue after clue, Holmes comes to share Watson’s wonder and discovers that it can sit alongside his logical outlook.

??When Holmes finally uncovers the startling and surprising secrets of the Masked Magician, he, Watson and the audience have to decide if some mysteries are best left as... mysteries!

Ages 6+
£20.50 – £24.50 (under 18s £15.50 – £19.50)

www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk/events/holmes-watson-the-curious-case-of-the-masked-magician

Ever felt like the world’s playing hide and seek with your stuff?

One moment it’s there... the next, poof! Your toy, your glasses, your book, your sock... even your ideas, gone.

Meet Rey, an imagination expert, a question-asker, a glorious misplacer of everything, and by their side, Rabbit, their forever-loved bunny, wise and fiercely loyal. The one who's always there when the world feels too much.

Together they set off on an unforgettable quest, to find all the things they’ve ever lost…

Whilst Rey & Rabbit explore they realise the trail of Lost Things doesn’t end with them. Other people have Lost Things too!

As Rey begins to realise that being a 'loser' might not be that bad, something remarkable starts to happen. What if losing things wasn’t the problem but the path?

This bold, funny and heart-tugging adventure mixes puppetry, visual storytelling and beautiful twists of the imagination, to explore our brilliant, often bewildering brains and what it means to live life a little out of order.

Ages 3+
£13.50 – £17.50, Child's Tickets £11.50 – £13.50

www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk/events/rabbit-rey-and-the-lost-things

Extraordinary women whose courage, daring, ingenuity and sacrifice defeated Nazi terror. Songwriter and storyteller Louise Jordan uncovers the lives of inspiring secret agents of WW2.

Who were they? How were they selected and trained to commit acts of sabotage, subversion and silent killing? Did they ultimately evade capture, torture and execution?

Behind Enemy Lines is a solo performance of live music, original songs, storytelling, soundscape, acting and choreography. Join Louise Jordan as she honours the inspirational lives of some of history’s lesser known women.

Ages 14+
Tickets £16.50 – £20.50

www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk/events/behind-enemy-lines

How on earth have we all survived the past decade of modern living without Victoria Wood's observational wit and wisdom?

What would she make of an Air Fryer? The Repair Shop? K-Pop Demon Hunters?

Paulus The Cabaret Geek is on hand to help us find answers.

From the creators behind the critically acclaimed Looking For Me Friendcomes What Wood Victoria Do? A brand new show, that takes an even deeper dive into the world of Wood. It is a celebration of those women who don’t mince their words but make everything better with a cuppa and a mutual distaste for next door’s extension: navigating friendship and loss amongst tea towels and village halls. Sit back and enjoy a fresh batch of brilliant tunes from The Victoria Wood Songbook.

Directed by the multi-award-winning Sarah-Louise Young (An Evening Without Kate Bush) this is a show not to be missed.

Though Vic may be gone, she has left behind so many nuggets of advice to help us build community based upon camaraderie, gossip and Custard Creams.

So come and get your second helping of music, mirth and macaroons!

Ages 10+
Tickets £21.50

www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk/events/what-wood-victoria-do

The Noise Next Door are the kings of improvised comedy and?are one of the world’s finest and funniest live comedy acts... The stars of Britain’s Got Talent and the U.K’s premier improv comedy troupe have taken the comedy world by storm and don’t look like slowing down.

Taking audience suggestions, the cheeky and charming quartet transform them into fantastically funny scenes and songs in the blink of an eye with a perfect blend of ludicrous characters, witty one-liners, epic stories, and explosive physicality.

The Noise Next Door are twelve-time sell-out veterans of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and one of the country’s most sought-after comedy club headliners, that leave audiences in awe of their lightning-quick wit and totally original comedic talents.

They have appeared on numerous TV shows including The One Show, Britain’s Got Talent and Roast Battle. They have also appeared alongside the likes of Michael McIntyre, Katherine Ryan, Romesh Ranganathan and Harry Hill.?They were nominated for a Chortle Award and receive standing ovations in front of corporate dinners, the British forces, secondary school students and even fans at the Download music festival. They are also one of the most versatile acts in the business.

Unstoppably funny and uniquely talented, The Noise Next Door will bowl you over then blow you away.

Ages 15+
Tickets £20.50

www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk/events/the-noise-next-door-comedy-improvised