Stage

CLECKHEATON Town Hall will be filled with the sound of brass this spring.

Cleckheaton and Spenborough AODS presents Brassed Off, the stage version of the hit film about Yorkshire miners struggling to keep their jobs, and their colliery band.

With the closure of many collieries during the 1980s, the village of Grimley, particularly its longstanding mining community, live with the threat that their pit may be next to go, leaving their lives changed forever.

Many of the miners are in the colliery brass band, which has played at competition level. Will it be forced to ‘disband’ if the pit is closed?

Based on the famous Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band, Brassed Off is a heartwarming and heart-wrenching play set in the recent history of pit closures.

Spenborough Amateurs are busy rehearsing for their production, which features a real brass band.

And it's none other than the renowned, award-winning Clifton and Lightcliffe Brass Band, which will appear on stage with the cast.

Members of cast for the play will join in with the band - get yourself along there and see if you can tell who's a real brass instrumentalist and who is acting...

Will the pit close? Will the band get to play at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall?

All is revealed when Brassed Off runs at Cleckheaton Town Hall from May 15-17 at 7.15pm. For tickets call (01274) 404585 or 07729360123, email jmm@judithmorris.plus.com or visit spenaods.com

It's a busy year for Spenborough Amateurs. This July they will be staging the comedy Legally Blonde, performed by the youth section, followed by Leonard Bernstein’s fabulous West Side Story in November.

Anyone interested in joining the society for West Side Story is asked to contact Judith Morris (see above for contact details). Auditions for principal parts will be announced in the near future.