TICKETS for Llangwm’s ambitious World War 1 stageshow go on sale next week.

More than 1,000 seats will be available for five productions of ‘WW1: a Village Opera’, staged at various venues this November.

Set in Llangwm, with scenes depicting the battlefields of the Western Front, the Opera tells the story of a young couple whose lives are turned upside down by the conflict.

Funding for the production - part of the ‘Llangwm: a village at war’ project, which includes an exhibition - has been provided by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Community Covenant from the Ministry of Defence.

“A thousand tickets sounds a lot but we’ve already had an extraordinary level of interest from the general public,” said Jane Mills, chair of Llangwm Local History Society, the organisation behind the musical extravaganza.

“A number of parts in the Opera are played by local people. There’s been very strong involvement throughout the community and everyone is saying how much they’ve learned about the village and the effect the war had on it.”

Dates for the productions are Wednesday November 12 and Thursday November 13 at Cleddau Reach VC School in Llangwm, Saturday November 15 at the Memorial Hall in Newport and Friday November 28 and Saturday November 29 at the Merlin Theatre in Pembrokeshire College, Haverfordwest. Tickets cost £5 but school children are admitted free.

More than a thousand tickets for the five productions of WW1: a Village Opera in November are now on sale at six outlets: the Victoria Bookshop in Bridge Street, Haverfordwest, Llangwm Shop and Post Office in Llangwm Village, Newtown Stores in Hook, Gate2Plate Farm Shop in Lower Freystrop,  Seaways Bookshop in West Street, Fishguard and The Post Office, Long Street, Newport .