DORSET writer and actor Ed Viney follows his successful play Pot Licker with a new black comedy, Stolen Ram, coming to Dorchester Corn Exchange on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th March, with more dates in the region, including Bath Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio on 11th to 14th March.

Working in association with Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre and Dorchester Arts, the Ed Viney company has created a sharp, fast-moving play that blends biting humour, suspense and human vulnerability.

Zara is in deep trouble. Entangled with shady, unscrupulous characters driven by greed and the pursuit of power, she finds herself trapped in a nightmare of her own making.

Of course, it was her decision to take a job in school senior management, but now she must find a way out before her teaching career, and everything else, goes up in flames.

But why can’t her teaching colleagues Rich and Kris learn how to torch a BMW properly? And wasn’t the plan always to be rock stars rather than teachers …?

By turns dark, funny and painfully human, this new play explores ambition, compromise, and the dangerous places everyday decisions can lead us.

Stolen Ram is also touring to venues across Dorset and the wider South West including the Mowlem at Swanage on 16th March, the Bay Theatre at Weymouth College on 17th March, the Barnfield at Exeter on 19th March, Mayflower Studios at Southampton on 26th March and Shaftesbury Arts Centre on 27th March.