Tim Firth’s adaptation of the award-winning Miramax film Calendar Girls, which tells the real-life story of a Yorkshire chapter of the Women’s Institute who decide to pose nude for a charity calendar arrives at the Lowry in October, ahead of a possible West End transfer. Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Penelope Wilton and Celia Imrie starred in the 2003 screen original, also written by Firth.

On stage, Patricia Hodge plays Annie (Walters on screen) who, after losing her husband to leukaemia, teams up with her close friend and fellow WI member Chris, played by Lynda Bellingham (Mirren on screen) to raise money for the local hospital by producing a calendar. They’re joined by Elaine C Smith as Cora/Miss October, Gaynor Faye as Celia/Miss November and Brigit Forsyth as WI president Marie. The ladies will strip off at the Lowry ahead of a possible London transfer. The Right Size’s Hamish McColl will direct.

Tickets are priced £12- £23 and Calendar Girls runs from Mon 20- Sat 25 October.

-Glenn Meads

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