Calendar Girls

Whitkirk Arts Guild is pleased to annouce that Calendar Girls will be produced in September 2012. This will be the first amateur production, of the acclaimed stage play, within the Leeds Area. The show is on Wednesday 12th until Saturday 15th September. You can reserve your tickets by using our online booking form, please use the link on the left.

Synopsis

When Annie's husband John dies of leukaemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four fellow WI members to pose nude with them for an "alternative" calendar, with a little help from hospital porter and amateur photographer Lawrence. The news of the women's charitable venture spreads like wildfire, and hordes of press soon descend on the small village of Knapeley in the Yorkshire Dales. The calendar is a success, but Chris and Annie's friendship is put to the test under the strain of their new-found fame.

Based on the true story of eleven WI members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukaemia Research Fund, Calendar Girls opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre and has since become the fastest selling play in British theatre history.