BRASSED Off will return to the local stage in a production by Bingley Little Theatre this summer.

Keighley Playhouse last year presented the stage adaptation of the well-known British movie at its Devonshire Street theatre.

And it also appeared last year in a professional touring production, which spent a week at Bradford Alhambra.

This time, Paul Allen’s adaptation will be performed at Bingley Arts Centre for the week beginning July 4, from 7.30pm.

A Little Theatre spokesman said: “Where there’s muck, there’s, there’s brass, and there is still almost 100 years’ worth of profitable coal in the Grimley colliery seam.

“Yet the miners who stood firm throughout the 1984 strike now face a renewed redundancy ballot that threatens to consign both their livelihoods and a century of a brass-band tradition to extinction.”

The play, based on real events in the West Yorkshire village of Grimethorpe, captures both the resilience and despair of the miners.

The focus is on the colliery brass band’s triumph in the national championships within a week of the pit closure.

The spokesman added: “Improbable fantasy, were it not actually true. An iconic piece with humour, desperation, pathos, grit and a live brass band.”

Visit bingleylittletheatre.co.uk or call 01274 567983 to book tickets.