AMATEUR thespians are performing Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida this week.

St Augustine's Repertory Society - known as Stars - is staging the lavish production, a musical about the early days of feminism, until Saturday in the parish centre, Larchfield Street, Darlington, at 7.30pm.

Producer Malcolm Frank said: "This is a really large-scale, exciting production."

Tickets are available at Darlington Tourist Information Office and Williams Music Shop, or by telephoning (01325) 255103.

The society is expecting a full house every night, as it did so with its last production, pantomime The Sleeping Beauty.