PUPILS from across Bradford are being given the chance to write and perform in a musical about their home city.

There’s No Place Like Bradford looks at the positives of the city’s past, as well as some of its darkest moments, including the Bradford riots and the Bradford City fire disaster.

The production has toured ten schools across Bradford in the past week. The goal is for students to be inspired to tell of their own experiences of the city to help create an even bigger, blockbuster musical to be performed later in the year.

The production was at Bradford Forster Academy in Bowling this morning for two lively performances in front of pupils.

It has been devised and created by a group of pupils from across Bradford, who originally came together in 2015.

Following its first performance, their work is now being performed by a group of local professional actors who want to inspire more young people to get involved.

The 30-minute performance by the company Performing Arts Etc has been touring schools this week, working with the Bradford Music Education Hub, which is led by Bradford Council.

The musical features stories and experiences from characters living in Bradford at different points in history.

The idea behind the project was to give Bradford pupils the chance to explore what their home city and district means to them personally.

Following this week’s tour of schools, workshops will take place over Easter where young people can present their ideas about how to expand the musical further.

The ultimate goal is to use these experiences to expand the work into a 90-minute musical, which will be performed by Bradford pupils themselves later in the year.

Tony Johnson, the head of Bradford Council’s Music and Arts Service, lead partner for the Bradford Music Education Hub, is overseeing the project.

He said: “The response from the young people seeing There’s No Place Like Bradford has been really great so far.

“We are now looking for young people who have been inspired by this performance to add their own voices to it to develop the show further.

“We also want to get school pupils to perform in it themselves.”