A LOCAL theatre group is taking to the road in North Yorkshire later this month.

The Ryedale Theatre Group has put together a performance of two plays.

One, Strindberg's The Stronger, is a rarely-performed psychological piece while the other, John Carpenter, is a new production dramatising a local story about the impact of a vagrant who calls at the home of a middle-class couple.

Performances will be at the Friends Meeting House, Pickering, on April 19, at 7.30pm and April 20 at 2.30pm; Marton village hall on April 20, at 7.30pm, and at the Arts Centre, Helmsley, on April 21 at 2.30pm. Tickets cost £5 and can be obtained at the door or by ringing (01751) 476863.