Sarah Singleton looks at what's on in Swindon theatres this week

  • Watch the Wilkes Academy Summer Showcase at the Wyvern Theatre at 2pm and 7pm today. Now in its fifth year, the showcase is a chance for the talented students to show what they can do. Tickets are £23.

  • The Bon Jovi Experience brings the sounds and styles of the chart-busting 80s band to the Wyvern Theatre on Friday at 7.30pm. Bon Jovi had platinum selling albums and a host of hit singles around the work, and the Bon Jovi Experience are described as the world’s first and finest tribute act. They have even performed live with Jon Bon Jovi himself and are featured on the official Bon Jovi website. Tickets are £23.50.

  • A play by Matt Fox called Fred, Ted, Jack and Harold will be performed at the Swindon Arts Centre on Friday and Saturday at 7.30pm. Eternity working in an office - it’s the nightmare that every desk jockey find themselves in, as they watch their precious lives slip by in a haze of emails, conference calls and soul crushing boredom. The darkest of dark comedies this is about four of Britain’s most notorious murderers and asks the question, what if eternity was meant literally? What if your soul deserved to be crushed and you were the worst of the worst? Tickets are £15, or £13 for students.

  • Eugene Onegin, presented by Opera Up Close and Operaluna, is playing at the Ellis Theatre, Marlborough College, on Saturday at 6.30pm. It is the story of intelligent but naïve Tatyana, whose entanglement with Onegin results in a wiser, sadder but ultimately more self-reliant heroine. This new chamber version transports the story of Tatyana’s sexual awakening to the early 1960s, in a world on the cusp of the women’s liberation movement, with seasonal allusions to the snow-swept Russian landscape of the original.

Performed by ten singers and four instrumentalists in a new orchestration for piano, cello, violin and woodwind, this coming-of-age story is a requiem for lost innocence and a celebration of hard-won independence – told through some of the most glorious music ever written. Tickets are £15 - £30.

  • Join Teresa’s School of Dance at the Wyvern Theatre on Saturday night for One Night Only, a show with a wide variety of dance routines including ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical and break dance. The show at 7.30pm is upbeat, modern and fun, giving students the chance to showcase their talent. Tickets are £12.