Following a successful tour earlier this year, Shropshire Drama Company (SDC) is taking its new production, inspired by local folklore from around the county, on the road again this autumn.

Written by local playwright and SDC member Michele Rowland-Jones and coinciding with Halloween, Supernatural Shropshire will be visiting Oscars at Ludlow Assembly Rooms on Saturday, October 26

Performed by six actors, Supernatural Shropshire is set in a small village pub, where a woman’s quiet drink is disturbed by the arrival of a stranger.

With the aid of a cast of storytellers the stranger spends the evening recounting several Shropshire folktales, including stories of ghosts, evil witches and even the devil himself but who is this mysterious stranger and why is it so important that she believes in the stories he tells?

Michele Rowland-Jones said: “Shropshire has a wealth of fascinating folktales and I hope that audiences will enjoy hearing them, as much as I have enjoyed researching them and weaving them into my play.”

SDC is an amateur company, which aims to provide audiences with high quality performances in a wide genre of plays.

In 2022/23 the company toured its self-penned production 41 Crowns on a tour of Shropshire and Powys to commemorate Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee and then, as 42 Crowns, to mark the coronation of King Charles III.

Performances – at Oscars, and then at the Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock (October 31) and at Montford Parish Hall (November 1) begin at 7.30pm and tickets are £10. Visit shropshiredramacompany.co.uk for further details.