Hope's Kitchen performing at Malmesbury Abbey (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)

Hope's Kitchen performing at Malmesbury Abbey

RIDING Lights Theatre Company brings its remarkable production, Hope's Kitchen, to Malmesbury Abbey on Saturday, May 7 at 7.30pm as part of its Prison and Church Tour 2005.

Imagine a house round the corner from you with four friends trading tales of their great scrapes and escapes - a place where stories are the stuff of life.

Here people live their own stories and sharing a story could open up a window into eternity.

Hope's Kitchen is a place at their table, with the tramp who magics himself into a marriage with a princess, the actor who travels to Africa and finds himself at the very bottom of the world, the heroic Swedish boy with his two remarkable goats and the vicar who tries to stop herself cracking up - with Polyfilla.

Hope's Kitchen is a collection of extraordinary stories told in extraordinary ways - colourful, moving, unforgettable tales of people finding hope in the strangest of places.

With help of a generous grant from the Anchor Foundation, Riding Lights is also taking an abbreviated version of the show into around 20 prisons across the UK during this tour.

For tickets for the Malmesbury Abbey show, call 0845 961 3000.