MIKRON Theatre Company will make a welcome stop in Wootton Wawen village hall, with their play about "Canary Girls", the women who worked in the munitions factories of the First World War.

The show will be performed on Saturday, June 25, from 7.30pm.

A spokesman said: "Mikron Theatre delight audiences with their energetic, fresh and original tales of the everyday people whose lives are changed by history.

"Canary Girls is a funny, heartfelt and tender story about two sisters seizing the opportunities offered to women by the outbreak of World War One, and becoming shell-workers in the local munitions factory."

The spokesman added: "For sisters, Rose and Lizzie, their new lives offer them money, independence, excitement and political awakening; until they realise the danger of shell work and how their dreams of a new world are pulling them apart.

"With original music by folk superstars, O'Hooley and Tidow, Canary Girls has humour and pathos, romance and danger; all performed by a hugely talented team of four singing, instrument-playing, character-swapping actors."

Playwright, Laurence Peacock joins Mikron for the first time this year after he was selected from other hopefuls to undertake this commission, a challenge that he was excited to take on.

He said: "Researching the Canary Girls was absolutely fascinating. During WWI so much happened to change the position of women in such a short space of time. The only major problem I had was, how am I going to get ‘Trinitrotoluene' (TNT) into a song?"

Canary girls were called such because the poisons they were asked to use, day in and day out, eventually turned them yellow.

Tickets and further details on, 01564 792904.