Devizes actor Jules Hobbs is shaking up Shakespeare in an innovative production.

The actor and writer, who lives in Rowde, runs theatre company Finding The Will with fellow actor and writer Richard Curnow. Before their Edinburgh Fringe Festival run this summer, the pair are returning to The Pound with two new monologues from the Bard Heads collection, based upon Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest.

In Dog, Book And Scandal it is a year since the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet and Friar Laurence is questioning his faith while attempting to rebuild his life, but time is running out.

Meanwhile, in The Queen’s Speech, we meet Miranda, pictured right, 35 years after leaving Prospero’s island at the end of The Tempest. As the Queen of Naples, she is about to make her Silver Jubilee speech: however all is not as it seems, and neither is she.

Don’t miss this fantastic shake-up of Shakespeare, paying homage to the Bard. This show has been produced in in association with the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham.

A version of the shows was also seen locally in Trowbridge last year, when they were performed at the new Town Hall arts centre venue.

Tickets £8 (£7 concessions) from 01249 701628 or www.poundarts.org.uk