THE autumn season at gets under way at Helmsley Arts Centre with a rich variety of performances and screenings.

On Friday, the opening show of the regional new tour from the Yorkshire-based company Badapple Theatre takes place.

The Carlton Colliers is a comic, backstreet fairytale that sees a hard-up village transformed forever, almost overnight. A hapless bunch of social outcasts and local-league cast offs, with barely a stud to their boots, are transported magically to a whole other level, a league apart.

This quirky new comedy is all about village life, love and, sometimes, football. About dreaming big in an old pit-village and the daft things that start to happen when you do. The show starts at 7.30pm.

The arts centre screens the film Mr Holmes, starring Ian McKellan, in which Sherlock Holmes looks back on his life and grapples with one last case, today (Wednesday) at 7.30pm, while Friday, sees local celebrity Dominic Goodwin read the first in a series of monthly Tales at Tiffin at 11.30am.

The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Othello will be screened at 7pm on Saturday, October 12. This production, directed by Iqbal Khan, has received rave reviews. Starring Hugh Quarshie as Othello and Lucian Msamati as Iago, the production has been described as "electrifying, compelling, gripping".

For tickets, the box office on 01439 771700 or online at helmsleyarts.co.uk