THE West Linton Dramatic Club is set to present its latest show later this month.

In the two-date production, the audience will be treated to The Boadicea of Britannia Street, by Ade Morris.

This talented troupe, who suffer somewhat from a short supply of men, are celebrating their ‘feminosity’ by playing a quartet of women who create and star in their very own (extremely) amateur production, inspired by feminist icon and ancient East Anglian Queen Boadicea.

The four heroines are an unlikely bunch, brought together by widow, poet, journalist and cat-lover Fran Lamb. 

Fran starts a creative writing group, with a cynical PE teacher with a dilemma, a tongue-tied housewife with an abusive husband and an optimistic young librarian, who has her own issues to contend with.

Much tea and vodka is also consumed along the way, and the heroines are helped in their quest by a pantomime horse and some particularly tuneful moments with the piano, cello and kazoo. Inevitably, life gets in the way, as the heroines battle their own demons.

The play won rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2014 and was described as “a touching, hilarious and feisty look at life, death and love through the eyes of the four women”.

The production is being staged on Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29 at 7.30pm at the Graham Institute in West Linton.

Tickets are available from Rumbling Tams £8/£5 or contact lucydouglas@btconnect.com