Salisbury Playhouse is presenting a Ruth Rendell thriller, Gallowglass – a world stage premiere, from Tuesday 3 to Saturday April 7 in the Main House.

When Sandor snatched little Joe from the path of a London tube train, he was quick to make clear the terms of the rescue. “I saved your life”, he told the homeless youngster, “so your life belongs to me now.”

Sandor began to tell him a fairy tale: an aging prince, a kidnapped princess chained by one ankle, a missed rendezvous… But what did this mysterious story have to do with Sandor? Joe only understood his own role – he was a Gallowglass, the servant of a chief…

Gallowglass stars Paul Opacic (Bad Girls/Emmerdale/Hollyoaks), Richard Walsh (London’s Burning), Karen Drury (Brookside), Dean Smith (Last Tango in Halifax/Waterloo Road), Florence Cady (Crucible of the Vampire), Rachael Hart (Apple Tree House), Eva Sayer (The Turn Of The Screw), Matthew Wellman, Jog Maher and introducing Joe Eyre as Sandor.