Noel Coward Reviews: Fine Times Recorder
Hands Across the Sea and Still Life, Studio Theatre Salisbury NOEL Coward’s dazzling wit and uncompromising insights into human behaviour rightly won him the title of “The Master”, and his … Continue reading
Noel Coward: Reviews: Salisbury Journal
REVIEW Coward’s 1930s flair in Salisbury Studio Theatre double bill 30th June In 1936, Noël Coward wrote a cycle of nine one-act plays designed to be performed in rotating groups … Continue reading
Desdemona – Fine Times Recorder Review
Desdemona – A Play About a Handkerchief, Studio Theatre, Salisbury OTHELLO is not one of Shakespeare’s most frequently performed plays, and in recent years it has been condemned as racist, … Continue reading
Desdemona – Salisbury Journal
Paula Vogel’s Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief reimagines Shakespeare’s Othello through the eyes of its three central women –Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca – shifting the focus firmly onto questions of feminism, sexuality and … Continue reading
Studio Theatre’s warm-hearted village comedy hits for six
It was full marks all round for Salisbury Studio Theatre’s superb amateur production of Outside Edge, Richard Harris’s much‑loved comedy about a cricket team juggling personal chaos and local league … Continue reading
Review: Outside Edge by Richard Harris – Studio Theatre, Salisbury
WATCHING Richard Harris’s cricketing farce Outside Edge 47 years after its premiere, and holding a programme that contains the message “Please be aware that Outside Edge is a classic late … Continue reading
Review: Outlying Islands, Studio Theatre, Salisbury
Fine Times Recorder SCOTTISH playwright David Greig set his 2002 play Outlying Islands on the furthest outlier rock from the Outer Hebrides in 1939, a time when Great Britain was holding … Continue reading
REVIEW – Studio Theatre’s complex play about isolation, discovery and fragility
By Christine StockPrint Content Manager Salisbury Studio Theatre’s latest production of Outlying Islands, by David Greig, is a haunting and heartfelt triumph – beautifully acted, sensitively directed, and full of atmosphere. … Continue reading
The Ice Queen: Review – Scene One Plus
The Ice Queen Studio Theatre Studio Theatre, Salisbury Lloyd Perry 10 December 2025 Tis the season to be jolly! And what better way to start the festive season then … Continue reading
The Government Inspector: Review – The Rose Bowl
ROSE BOWL ADJUDICATIONName of Company: Studio TheatreName of Production: The Government Inspector (adapted by Philip Goulding)Venue: Studio Theatre, SalisburyDate: Wednesday 15th OctoberAdjudicator: Tash Moore Philip Goulding’s adaptation succinctly presents a … Continue reading
REVIEW – Salisbury Studio Theatre’s The Government Inspector
by Christine Stock: 19th October 2025 Salisbury Studio Theatre has once again proven that amateur theatre can rival the professional stage, with its brilliant production of The Government Inspector or … Continue reading
The Government Inspector Or A Little Local Difficulty
The latest production by the award-winning Studio Theatre is Ukrainian playwright Nikolai Gogal’s timeless satire The Government Inspector. However, note the all-important sub-title ( A Little Local Difficulty) because this adaptation is quite a … Continue reading
A Little Local Difficulty, Salisbury Studio Theatre
RUSSIAN playwright Nikolai Gogol perfectly captured the pomposity, predilection for back-handers, flirtatious peccadillos and general self-aggrandisement that is universally noted in local (and national) government in his 1836 play The … Continue reading
Reviews – Noises Off
I have not seen a Studio Theatre production before, nor had I heard of Noises Off, so I was able to come into the evening completely open minded, which I really … Continue reading
Reviews – Dracula!
Read the reviews of our May 2025 production of Dracula below. WHAT is it about the story of Dracula that continues to grip us? Whether it is the 1897 original … Continue reading