What's on stage in the south next week.

JIM Davidson presents a comedy show strictly for adults at Portsmouth Guildhall tomorrow evening.

An Evening With Jim Davidson has sold out across the country since the tour began back in December. The Portsmouth date was added due to demand, and recordings of the south coast show will be used for the comedian's next video release.

Tickets from £16.50. Box office: 023 9282 4355.

THE Nuffield in Southampton presents the play Wallflowering from Monday until Wednesday. It is the story of married couple Cliff and Peg who love to dance. When the usually coordinated couple suddenly seem to have two left feet, the dynamics of their relationship are questioned and challenged.

Tickets £8. Box office: 023 8067 1771.

SOUTH African play White Men With Weapons seems particularly relevant at the moment. The show, which will be performed at Winchester's theatre Royal on Tuesday, depicts what happens to the minds of men who are forced to fight a senseless war in a foreign land. With razor-sharp satire, humour and poignancy, writer Greig Coetzee has developed 13 strong characters that guide the audience through South Africa's troubled past.

Tickets from £10. Box office: 01962 840440.

AN adaptation of William Golding's classic novel Lord of the Flies will take to the stage at the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth from Tuesday, March 15. A group of schoolboys are stranded on an uninhabited island following a plane crash. They are forced to battle against the elements and, ultimately, each other, for survival and supremacy. This dark, inspirational and thought-provoking adaptation, presented by Pilot Theatre, remains faithful to Golding's vision and runs until Saturday, March 19.

Tickets from £9.50. Box office: 023 9264 9000.

LIGHTHOUSE in Poole will be showcasing the world premiere of a bloodcurdling new version of Bram Stoker's Dracula from Tuesday. This modern adaptation from award-winning writer Bryony Lavery promises to scare audiences witless, and aims to challenge preconceptions that people hold about the bloodsucking anti-hero.

But be warned, this show is definitely not for the faint hearted! It runs until Saturday, March 19.

Tickets from £12. Box office: 01202 685222.

THE feel-good musical Wake Up Little Suzie! is still running at the Haymarket Theatre in Basingstoke. Set in a holiday camp, the glamorous and upbeat show tells the story of a talent contest and includes all the hits from the 1970s. It runs until Saturday, March 19.

Tickets from £10. Box office: 0870 770 1088.

TOM Stoppard's critically acclaimed play The Invention of Love follows the life and times of the much-loved poet and celebrated scholar AE Housman.

Stoppard was the co-writer for hit Hollywood film Shakespeare In Love, and The Salisbury Playhouse's Main House will be presenting this rich and luminous production throughout March. It runs until Saturday, March 26.

Tickets £9. Box office: 01722 320333.

YOUNGSTERS who like animals are in for a treat at The Nuffield in Southampton tomorrow morning. The Mole Who Knew It Was None Of His Business is a children's theatre show that follows Mole on his travels.

Along the way he meets a variety of outlandish and amusing animal characters, each of which has its own distinctive style of dance and music. The show starts at 11am.

Tickets £4. Box office: 023 8067 1771.

ALSO at The Nuffield from next Thursday is August Strindberg's play, Easter. This production centres around the Swedish Heyst family on Good Friday in 1901. With a father in prison and a daughter in an asylum, the remaining mother and son live each day as it comes. On this particular Good Friday the twosome's fear and despair is melted away into hope and joy. This tender play is at The Nuffield until Saturday, March 19.

Tickets from £10. Box office 023 8067 1771.