A THEATRE company will perform a new play inspired by an 18th Century pocket book.

York-based company, Common Ground Theatre, was motivated by the poem and folk music found in the small 1745 pocket book which is currently on display in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, in London.

The self-penned solo show, entitled Kitty Bridges’ Pocket Book of Tunes, has been created by Hannah Davies.

A collaboration between the theatre group and musicians, Paul Baldwin and Moira Clarke, it follows Kitty who starts her adventures in Yorkshire before travelling and finding scoundrels, rogues and vagabonds in ballrooms, gin-sodden streets and the back road.

It includes a mix of storytelling, poetry and song with handpicked melodies for dancing and will be touring throughout Yorkshire and the North-East until April.

The show will have its first performance at The Witham, in Barnard Castle, on Saturday, January 31, from 7.30pm.

Tickets cost £12 or £10 for concessions.

For tickets and more information on other dates and venues visit www.cgtheatre.co.uk