POOLE'S Lighthouse arts centre has confirmed a second season of outdoor shows.

The second season of Lighthouse: OUTSIDE, at the amphitheatre to the side of the building, will include entertainment every Saturday from May 29 up until July 24.

Also announced, but for an indoor performance scheduled for the summer, is a show by Saving Grace, featuring Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant.

Blindness, the binaural theatrical experience that was a sensation in the West End and Off-Broadway, is also confirmed for the Poole venue.

A spokesman for the Lighthouse said: "After being forced to postpone their show last year, Saving Grave – the musical collective fronted by Robert Plant and Susi Dian – were determined to play Lighthouse at the earliest opportunity and are set to arrive in Poole on 25 June, just days after the government’s projected lifting of lockdown restrictions.

"Opening a week’s run on July 12, award-winning playwright Simon Stephens has adapted Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago’s dystopian novel Blindness as a sound installation, directed by Walter Meierjohann with immersive binaural sound design by Ben and Max Ringham. 

Juliet Stevenson voices the storyteller/doctor’s wife in this gripping story of the rise and, ultimately, profoundly hopeful end of an unimaginable global pandemic."

Screen On Stage is the new high definition, surround sound cinema experience in the theatre space showing films and major arts events on one of the region’s biggest cinema screens.

The programme starts with a specially-priced introductory screening of The Greatest Showman (PG) and continues with Cirque Du Soleil’s Worlds Away.

"Now that we’re able to enjoy the thrill of live performance again, a second season of Lighthouse: OUTSIDE will see live music, comedy, poetry and theatre, including a ‘festival day’ double header of unsigned music showcase Live and Unheard on July 3 with afternoon and evening line-ups.," said the spokesman.

Visit lighthousepoole.co.uk for further information.