A NEW date has been added to a play based on the inspirational story of Kidderminster legends Frank and Wynn Freeman – at a very special venue.

The Dancing Club, written and directed by Caroline Jester and produced by Pippa Frith, charts the tale of the couple and their drive to get people in their home town dancing.

The play has already sold out for its opening night at Kidderminster College on Wednesday, February 28, and a second show in Bewdley’s St George’s Hall.

Due to the sell-out success, a very special performance and venue has been added to the tour – a slot at La Brasserie, on Lower Mill Street, which is the site of the former dancing club.

Tickets cost £8 from dancingclubkidderminster.eventbrite.com, and pre-show dinner bookings from 4.30pm can be made at Le Brasserie call 01562 744976, quoting 'The Dancing Club'.

After the Second World War, Frank moved back to his hometown Kidderminster and with Wynn’s support they realised a life-long ambition and opened a dance school in 1948.

Initially, Frank taught ballroom dancing and helped build up a national reputation but, as the decades came and went, the club moved with the times.

In their Dancing Club people learned the waltz one night and watched live music by Marc Bolan, Captain Beefheart and Led Zeppelin the next. Robert Plant was a good friend of the community champions.

Director Caroline Jester, who is a former dance pupil of Frank and Wynn’s, said: “Frank Freeman's dancing club didn't just teach me disco dancing. It gave me self-confidence to do what I wanted to do.

“But it wasn't just me that he made feel special as I discovered interviewing people aged 25 to 90 for The Dancing Club.”

A cast of four – Mark Jardine as Frank, Ali Belbin as Wynn and Laurence Saunders and Emma Clayton play a range of characters – portray accounts of opportunity and trust in the story of the dance teachers’ life-long commitment to Kidderminster.

It is presented in a traditional ballroom dance club setting and the show will even culminate in the audience to join the cast on stage to learn a dance.