THE Brandywine Theatre Company will be performing four plays next month at The Barn Theatre in Beeches Road, Cirencester.

Local actress Katy Sirr, who formed the Brandywine Theatre Company, opened the Cirencester School of Acting 18 months ago. Katy hopes to be able to make this play festival an annual event taking inspiration from when every theatre had a weekly repertory season.

As part of Cirencester Commemorates, Brandywine presents a specially commissioned play Same Time Next War by Christopher Denys which will be performed on July 31, and August 1, 2, 7,8,9. The play follows a Cirencester family through the terrors of the two world wars and intervening depression – the things they said, the fears they faced and the songs they sang – and commemorates both the centenary of the outbreak of the “war to end all wars” in 1914 and the seventieth anniversary of the D-Day landings which, after much fierce fighting, led to the final dawning of peace in 1945.

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, one of his most famous, moving and engaging plays is performed on August 14, 15, 16.

The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband by Debbie Isitt, is a hilarious black comedy in which a housewife takes her culinary revenge on August 21, 22, and 23.

And Smiling Through by Christopher Denys and Katy Sirr commemorates the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings on August 28, 29, and 30.

Tickets from Cirencester Information Centre, or by emailing brandywinetheatrecompany@gmail.com.