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Updated Tuesday 29th April, 6.45pm

Wednesday 30 April
BATH, Theatre Royal, Playhouse Creatures, to Sat.
Forum, Razorlight.
BRIDPORT, Lyric Theatre, KOOK Ensemble in Sand, new play set on Devon coast, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, to Sun.
Old Vic, Headlong and Frantic Assembly in The House Party, adapted from Strindberg’s Miss Julie, to Sat, 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
St George’s, Liza Pulman and Joe Stilgoe, A Couple of Swells, 7.30.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Les Miserables, 40th anniversary staged concert, recorded at Gielgud Theatre, 7.30.
CIRENCESTER, Barn Theatre, In the Mouth of the Wolf, new play by Michael Morpurgo, to 11 May.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Jo King Comedy in John Godber’s Bouncers, and Thurs, 7.30.
EAST KNOYLE, Village Hall, Conclave. MOVIOLA
EXETER, Northcott Theatre, NT Connections.
ILMINSTER, Warehouse, IES in Bill Bryson’s Notes from a Small Island, to Sat, 7.30.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, NT Connections, West Country youth theatre groups and schools, and Thurs, 7pm.
POOLE, Lighthouse, The Shark is Broken, play about the making of JAWS, to Sat, 7.45, Wed/Sat mats 2.30: Alena Baeva, violin, recital, Schumann, Brahms, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, 7.30: Cinema, Wind, Tide and Oar, documentary, 3.30:  The Penguin Lessons, various times.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, The Da Vinci Code, to Sat, 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2.15.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, A Complete Unknown, film, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Welsh National Opera in Britten’s Peter Grimes, 7pm.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, The Brutalist, film,  1 May, 10pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, The Drifters.
YEOVIL, Westlands, The D-Day Darlings, 2.30.