A STORY of tragic separation and the power and transformative value of dance, music, friendship and love is coming to Bridport.

Bridport Youth Dance and Bridport Boys Dance presents Orpheus and Eurydice: The Power Of Love at Bridport Electric Palace on Friday March 6 and Saturday, March 7.

This collaborative production by Nikki Northover and Aimee Symes is the groups' 16th annual production.

Musician and poet Orpheus falls in love with mortal Eurydice and loves her so deeply that when she dies, he travels to the underworld to get her back.

There he enchants everyone….even the dark king Hades – with the beauty of his music.

Hades King of Shadows, King of Shades knows what this love is like. He fell in love with a woman who walked above; Persephone, daughter of the goddess Demeter.

Meanwhile in the underworld, Eurydice and Persephone developed a beautiful friendship. Eurydice was a breath of fresh air in this dark kingdom where the sun never shone.

Alongside this precious friendship with Eurydice, Persephone grew to love Hades and enjoyed being the queen of the underworld.

Hades, recognising the love Orpheus shows for his wife, allows Orpheus to take Eurydice back to the upper world. Under a single condition; he must not look back.

Anxious that Eurydice may not have followed, Orpheus turns around as he enters the light and loses her for a second time. This time she is taken by the shadows into the underworld where she will live for ever.

Bereft on a mountain, he is caught in a storm and struck by Zeus’s lightening. However, Orpheus is saved by his friend Hades, who has been charmed by the musicians ability to enchant the natural world, as well as the spirits in the underworld.

Hades, being softened by this powerful love, takes Orpheus to Eurydice where they are are finally reunited.

Now the lovers walk together side by side. Sometimes she walks ahead…sometimes he does…but they are finally together.

This version of the Greek myth is a story about the power of love against the inevitability of human weakness. Love and friendship are underlying themes throughout.

The show features choreography by Nikki Northover, Aimee Symes and Bec Ayles, music by composers Andrew Dickson and Chris Reynolds and puppetry by Holly Miller.

*Orpheus and Eurydice: The Power Of Love at Bridport Electric Palace on Friday March 6 at 7.30pm and Saturday, March 7 at 2pm and 7.30pm. Tickets cost £10.50 for adults tickets and £9.50 for children and students. Tickets can be bought from in person from the Electric Palace and Bridport TIC, by calling 01308 424901 or online at electricpalace.org.uk