THORNTON-le-Dale Players latest production takes place next week.

The players are presenting two, one-act comedies, The Radio Play by Freddy Blakeley and The Fat Lady Sings in Little Grimley by David Tristram.

The Radio Play is a gentle and nostalgic comedy. It is a series of three playlets, showing how the BBC would illustrate the concerns and conversations of country people coping with wartime.

Directed by Jo Myers, the cast includes Frank Rowling, Chris Baxter, Sue Blackmun, Barry Whitaker, Ian Myers, Suzanne Booker, Richard Benson and Stewart Cambridge.

In The Fat Lady Sings in Little Grimley, the village's amateur dramatic society are back to tackle yet another threat to their survival - a rival am-dram, newly-formed and determined to upstage them with an award-winning musical.

The querulous quartet pull together to devise an ingenious military-style plan that doesn't, well, go quite to plan. When their subterfuge is discovered by the rival society's psychopathic front-of-house manager, he's none too pleased. Could this finally be the end of their society? Don't be so sure. It's never over until the fat lady sings.

Again directed by Jo Myers, the cast includes Freddy Blakeley, Barry Whitaker and Chris Baxter.

The performances will be at Thornton-le-Dale Village Hall on Friday, November 27, at 7.30pm, and Saturday, November 28, at 2pm and 7.30pm.

Tickets are £6 and are available from Wardill Bros Newsagents, The Square, Thornton-le-Dale.?