A RICHMOND-based touring theatre company is to set its next production in a medieval church and based on JL Carr novel, A Month in the Country.

North Country Theatre is producing the play after director Nobby Dimon adapted the 1980 novel by the Carlton Miniott-born writer about love, loss and recovery.

Mr Dimon said: “We’ve always been interested in stories with a north country flavour or angle.

“This delightful and evocative tale of a lost time is set in an imaginary village somewhere on the edge of the Hambleton hills just after the first world war, so it seemed right up our street in more ways than one.”

A Month in the Country was the winner of the Guardian Fiction prize and shortlisted for the Booker award.

A film adaptation was released in 1987 starring Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh and Natasha Richardson.

Mr Dimon’s stage adaptation was first toured in 2002 and the new production with opens at the Georgian Theatre Royal Richmond on Wednesday, October 1 before a 46 date tour across the region which includes a matinee in Leyburn on Saturday, November 15.

For more information visit www.northcountrytheatre.com or call 01748-825288.