IN NOVEMBER the Cotswold Players will be staging the premiere of Blighty Bound, a musical play written by a local playwright Pip Royall.

Inspired by WW1 poetry from both the War Front and the Home Front , the show has been created especially for the Players. It commemorates the men and women from Stroud who lived through a time of heightened emotions and unique experiences and, having survived these extraordinary circumstances, found themselves facing an altered normality.

Told through the lives of a few families in a small Gloucestershire village, the show focuses on the heartbreak of separation when the men are sent to the front; the fortitude and resourcefulness of the women left behind; the horror the soldiers lived through, and the humour and songs that helped them survive.

For this production the Players are looking for three male actors - one in his twenties, one in his thirties and one in his forties, with a little singing of soldiers' songs involved. The show is being performed at the Cotswold Playhouse on Parliament Street, Stroud, from November 25 - 29.

For for more information please go to www.cotswoldplayhouse.co.uk