IDLE Motion Theatre Company’s play about Bletchley Park and the Enigma Code, That Is All You Need To Know, so impressed general manager Janet Farmer and her assistant James Duffy at Pocklington Arts Centre last September, that they promptly booked the company’s next show.

The premiere tour of Shooting The Light will visit Pock on April 29 at 7.30pm with its story of a young German refugee fleeing to Paris in 1934, where she discovers the power of photography. Reinventing herself as Gerda Taro, she becomes the first female war photographer on the front line.

In a startling and visually rich production, Idle Motion expose one of the most remarkable untold stories of our age, using innovative staging, physical theatre and multimedia to interweave the dramatic stories of photographs undeveloped, scattered and unearthed. “This is a story about capturing moments, freezing shadows and the photographs that outlive our memories,” say the touring company.

The Pocklington theatre programme opens with the Red Ladder Theatre Company and DumbWise stage adaptation of Terry Jones’ children’s story, Nicobobinus, on February 16 at 2.30pm.

In a land where dragons are locked in boiler rooms and mountains move like the oceans, Nicobobinus and his best friend Rosie embark on a wild adventure to cure him of a golden curse. Obstructed by kidnapping pirates and savage nine-foot monks, will they find the cure in time or be forced to return to their home in Venice, changed forever?

On the way, Nicobobinus and Rosie’s friendship, humanity and overall brilliantness are put to the test in an epic, clever tale of dragons, pirates and Monty Pythionesque silliness.

Leeds company Red Ladder have assembled a cast of five actor-musicians for their first first family show, adapted by associate director John Ward with cheeky irony, instrumental acrobatics, singing and original music by musical director Eilidh deBonnaire.

Nicobobinus is suitable for age six upwards while The Ling Kings on February 28 at 2.30pm is aimed at seven year olds and upwards. Stage and screen writer Ian Billings and performance poet, author and illustrator Chris White team up as a “deranged double act” to present 90 minutes of crazy cartoons, potty poems, silly stand-up, plus whatever else occurs to them, served up with a side order of wacky and dollops of loopy.

Lancashire company Horse + Bamboo return to Pock with Red Riding Hood, the story of a young girl, a hungry wolf and a walk through the woods, on May 29 at 2.30pm. It may sound like a recipe for disaster – the woodland walk, not the show – but Red Riding Hood is not scared, well, maybe a little scared in this “gorgeously rendered retelling of the classic girl-and-the-wolf tale where exquisite visuals blend with pantomime-style silliness and spooky moments”.

The show is billed for all ages over four, but Janet Farmer says: “We’ve had Horse + Bamboo here before and they’re a fabulous company for children, well, anybody actually. They do wonderful puppetry and mask work.”

Regular visitors Reform Theatre Company have teamed up with Harrogate Theatre for a touring production of John Godber’s romantic misadventure April In Paris that will play Pocklington on June 3 at 7.30pm. In this Yorkshire-meets-France two-hander, the relationship of newly redundant Al and shoe-shop assistant Bet is on the rocks, but can the competition prize of a romantic night in Paris rekindle their love amid the Gallic culture, steak tartare and champagne?

For tickets, ring 01759 301547 or book online at pocklingtonartscentre.co.uk