REHEARSALS are taking place in Darlington tonight, Thursday, for an ambitious visual theatre work celebrating 100 years since the first British women were given the right to vote.

The Glass Ceiling will be performed tomorrow night, Friday, in Darlington's Market Square from 9.30pm.

And actors were putting the final touches to their performance in a dress rehearsal tonight, Thursday.

Inspired by the Suffragettes and Suffragists, the show celebrates activists from the Tees Valley region whose courage propelled this historic movement to achieve political recognition.

The show features pyrotechnics and aerial performance as well as innovative staging.