MULTI-award-winning drama group Adel Players (www.adeloplayers.org.uk) are delighted to announce that they have secured the rights to perform the iconic World War One play 'Journey’s End' this October.

Set in a front line dugout near St Quentin in northern France and hailed as the finest war play ever written, 'Journey’s End' tells the story of a small group of officers and men in an infantry battalion as they prepare to face the Germans’ spring offensive of March 21, 1918.

First performed in 1928 with the lead role of Captain Stanhope played by a young Laurence Olivier, 'Journey’s End' was written by RC Sherriff, who himself served as a young officer in the front line until 1917 when he was wounded in the face by shell fragments and invalided home.

“Performing a play acknowledged by Winston Churchill as depicting living history is a huge privilege and we’re determined to show our audiences as truthfully as we can what the men who served in that conflict had to live through," said director Bernard Riley.

Performances are from Wednesday, October 21 to Saturday, 24 October at 7.30 pm at Adel Memorial Hall, Church Lane, Adel, LS16 8DE.

Tickets (£8) are available from 0113-2755585 or by emailing tickets@adel-players.org.uk.