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FINAL WEEK - ENDS SATURDAY 24 NOVEMBER

"Stunning... outstanding... thought provoking and utterly absorbing. Not be to missed."
  Whatsonstage.com

"Tense, compelling... the sets were wonderful... another excellent Playhouse production."
Southern Daily Echo

"Engaging and dramatic... makes you want to run outside and gawp at the Cathedral."
Salisbury Journal

The stage premiere of the novel by William Golding, about the men who conceived and built the spire on Salisbury Cathedral.

Dean Jocelin has a vision. A spire, 400 feet high, pointed like an arrow to God, a pinnacle of faith, bursting from the heart of the Cathedral. But no one has built that high before. There are no foundations. There are inadequate funds. And when Master Builder, Roger Mason, begins to work, the fragility of Jocelin’s vision soon becomes apparent.

As the spire slowly rises, dark shadows are cast across the lives ofall involved in this epic saga of faith versus reason.

The Spire is directed by Artistic Director Gareth Machin (Epsom Downs) and designed by Tom Rogers (The Game of Love and Chance, Epsom Downs).

Kindly sponsored by Frank and Elizabeth Brenan

Running time: Approx. 2hrs 30 mins (including 2 intervals)

Read a personal review written as part of his Silver Arts Award by Oliver Hopkins aged 12.