Arts festival transforms empty shop into crime scene

A recent survey found the arts in Salisbury having a positive impact on the vitality of the town centre. Now, in a new spin, an empty shop has been transformed into a crime scene.

Salisbury International Arts Festival has transformed the shop in the Old George Mall shopping centre to publicise its production of Betrayal, which coming to the city from 3 to 5 June.

Betrayal is an immersive music, theatre and dance show which will be staged in an area of The Maltings car park. B

eyond a cordon of police tape, the audience will become detectives, moving amongst six scenes involving singers and dancers and encouraged to piece together a web of intersecting stories that unfold before them.

The performance is based on the music of Gesualdo, a composer who gained notoriety as a murderer, and whose story has inspired Betrayal. The music is sung by vocal ensemble I Fagiolini who brought How Like An Angel to the Festival with Circa in 2013.

Tickets for Betrayal can be booked at salisburyfestival.co.uk or by calling 0845 241 9651.