Wycliffe Drama Group tell The Calendar Girls's story

THE story of members of a very ordinary Women’s Institute who became international stars will be told at Lutterworth College.

Wycliffe Drama Group's latest play The Calendar Girls opens for a four-night run on October 9.

Directed by Suzanne Hack and produced by Stuart Cross, it tells the story of how the WI ladies persuade one another to pose for a charity calendar with a difference.

The play is set in the fictional village of Knapeley in Yorkshire and is told over a whole year with a cast including Melanie Lee as Annie (played by Julie Walters in the film); Mary Green as Jessie (Annette Crosby); Jackie Matthew as Celia (Celia Imrie); Pat Knight as Ruth (Penelope Wilton); Norma Harratt as Brenda (Harriet Thorpe); and Kate Gamble as shop owner Cora (Linda Bassett).

In the true story - made famous in the hit film in 2003 - the WI's original plan was to raise money to buy a new sofa for the hospital where one of its member's husbands was treated before he died from Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in July 1998, aged just 54.

But it went global as to date they have raised over £3million for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research.

Tickets for Wycliffe Drama Group's adaptation are available from Aspect Stationers on Church Street in Lutterworth or from Lynn Jackson on , priced £6 or £8.

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