AN AWARD-WINNING theatre group will celebrate 20 years of success with a special performance next month.

The Bridport based Encore Theatre Club will show off their talent at the Arts Centre for one night only - as they perform two plays.

The event will raise vital funding for future productions, and will celebrate more than 20 years of Bridport's biggest theatre club.

The production will begin with the premier of a one act play called Cabbages and Windmills. This is a brand new work by Loraine Parnell, a member of Storytraders, a local creative writing group. Set in 1996, the play tells the story of an outwardly normal family spending a weekend at a converted windmill in Norfolk. But not everything is as it seems – and the audience is kept guessing until the final twist in the tale.

The company will return after the interval for a rehearsed reading of Louis de Bernieres short play for voices. Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World is set in Earlsfield, London - but gives more than a nod to Under Milk Wood. It was inspired by the award-winning writer’s time living in south London before finding fame and fortune with Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

Miles Bell, from Encore Theatre Club, said: "Encore continues with its aim to perform interesting and challenging plays and bring them to a new audience.

"Cabbages and Windmills gives us the great opportunity to be able to perform a new play by a local writer - whilst Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World is a fun play that we've wanted to perform for years - and this seemed the ideal event."

For more information, contact Bridport Arts centre on 01308 424204.