NOW in its 45th year, Mikron Theatre Company will make a welcome stop in Craven next Thursday, April 28.

Appearing for the first time at Skipton Town Hall, the company will delight audiences with its energetic, fresh and original tales of the everyday people whose lives are changed by history.

Canary Girls is a funny, heartfelt and tender story about two sisters seizing the opportunities offered to women by the outbreak of World War One and becoming shell-workers in the local munitions factory.

For sisters, Rose and Lizzie, their new lives offer them money, independence, excitement and political awakening…until they realise the danger of shell work and how their dreams of a new world are pulling them apart.

With original music by folk superstars, O'Hooley and Tidow, Canary Girls has humour and pathos, romance and danger; all performed by a hugely talented team of four singing, instrument-playing, character-swapping actors.

Playwright Laurence Peacock says: "Researching the Canary Girls was absolutely fascinating. During World War One so much happened to change the position of women in such a short space of time."

The show starts at 7.30pm and tickets are available from mikron.org.uk or call 01756 792809.