THE award-winning Craven-based Jay Walkers Theatre Company is back on the road.

It follows its successful spring tour with the play Not About Heroes - portraying a wartime meeting between Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen - which went on to win five awards at the Wharfedale Festival of Theatre.

Now the company is returning to comedy and will perform two one-act plays under the heading, A Comedy Double Act.

The evening will start with Last Tango in Little Grimley, which centres around a failing amateur drama group facing financial ruin and its daredevil plan to either survive or go out with an almighty bang. The main characters are played by Steve Charlton, Chris Cundell, Jamesine Cundell Walker and Joan Nicholson.

The second play, Blind Date, features a middle-aged couple (played by Alison Ford and Steve Charlton) who meet after responding to adverts in a dating magazine.

Both plays are directed by Pat Charlton.

The season opens at The Octagon Theatre, Grassington next Friday, September 26, with further performances at Cononley Village Institute on Saturday, September 27, Gargrave Village Hall on Friday, October 3, and Old Pool Bank Village Hall, Pool-in-Wharfedale, on Saturday, October 4.

Tickets are available via the website, thejaywalkers.co.uk, or by telephone on 01756 760302.