MORE drama is to be played out on one of the region’s great battlefields – but this time no-one will get hurt.

Towton, between York and Tadcaster, saw one of the bloodiest battles in British history during the Wars of the Roses, when 28,000 men are thought to have been killed in 1461.

And Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre will be there on July 14 to stage the three Henry VI plays under their original titles of Harry the Sixth, The Houses of York and Lancaster and The True Tragedy of the Duke of York.

The performance will explore the links between English history, English literature and English landscape, said a spokeswoman.

Prior to the Towton event, from June 26 to July 13, the Globe will staging the plays at York Theatre Royal, giving audiences the chance to see the plays without having to travel to the Globe’s open-air theatre in London.

The spokeswoman said the Theatre Royal was the perfect setting for a sequence propelled and shaped by the royal ambitions of the House of York.

Tickets for the Towton performances will cost £45 per person, per day, plus a £1 booking fee. Performances will take place in a field immediately behind the Rockingham Arms pub.

For more information, go to yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/shows/henry_vi_towton.php#.UaYgatKOS5I, or phone 01904-623568.