THE Craig Chalmers Experience was created in Winchester and enjoyed a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year. Now it's coming home and the city has the opportunity to see this unique piece when it performs at Theatre Royal Winchester on Tuesday February 28 and Wednesday March 1.

The Craig Chalmers Experience is an original solo piece devised by local actor and poet Craig Chalmers. He describes the show as “opening the lid on a life in flux.”

The audience are invited to sit on the stage where they find a man stuck in a space without escape. Burdened by the pressure to perform and the expectations of others, he increasingly neglects the needs of self and starts to contemplate the inevitability of life’s end and death's beginning.

"To call it an experience is ingenious, I don't think it fits any other genre," said the Ben Huxley theatre blog in a four star review that described it as “hilarious”.

The Craig Chalmers Experience, which mixes film, music and live performance, has been created by Winchester-based company Sometimes How To Get By. The group comprises Craig himself, Beth Lawless who is producer, writer, critic and co-director, film-maker and photographer Matthew Honey, film-maker and editor Charlie Handy and composer and musician Josie Doig.

Craig Chalmers who graduated from the University of Winchester in 2012 said :"I am very pleased to be presenting an original piece of work in this city I love!

The Craig Chalmers Experience is at Theatre Royal Winchester on Tuesday 28 February and Wednesday 1 March with performances at 6.00pm and 8.00pm. Tickets are available at theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk and on 01962 840 440.