A NEW season of theatre from Southampton and Hampshire based artists will get under way in the city this month.

It all takes place at the Studio Theatre of Nuffield Southampton Theatre’s City venue, which opened last year.

The programme called Make It SO will include two brand new musicals in Obella and Big Mouse Strikes Again.

There will also be a new play about the pioneering Southampton-based engineer Tilly Schillings in Tilly and the Spitfires.

A new take on Virginia Woolf’s ground-breaking novel Orlando will be performed as well as a new show for families celebrating the inspiring story of the Hampshire Renegade Girls.

It will accompany the return of NST’s smash hit Spitfire story production The Shadow Factory, which returns a year after it opened the venue, and celebrate Southampton as a city of makers.

Alongside ten Hampshire-based companies and artists taking part in Make It SO are NST’s Youth Theatre with Class, which is their contribution towards the NT Connections Festival and Solent University’s performing arts student showcases.

Katy Snelling, head of programming at NST, said: “Having spread the story of Southampton’s Spitfire manufacturers in our hit production of The Shadow Factory we’ve spent the autumn seeking out other Hampshire makers.

“This has led us to be able to present a season of performances in our studio entirely made by local artists.

“Some of the shows are at early stages and others well established and I couldn’t be prouder to showcase the talent and skill our city has to offer.”

Make It SO runs from February 18 to April 6.

Tickets for all shows are on sale now.