THE BRONTË sisters are among the latest targets for well-known Yorkshire comedy duo LipService.

The two women are playing real-life characters including Charlotte Brontë as they tour The Hysterical The Historical.

The show will be performed at the Square Chapel Centre For The Arts in Halifax on December 12 at 8pm.

Audiences can expect a whacky, whirlwind tour of Britain’s female national treasures in a production that is part sketch show, and part pub quiz.

A spokesman for LipService said The Hysterical The Historical saw the two women returning to their stand-up comedy roots.

She said: “You can meet notorious gossip Mrs Gaskell and her timid friend Charlotte Bronte, and learn about Marie Stopes and her little known friendship with Scott of the Antarctic.

“You can stage a protest with the ever radical Pankhursts, meet Georgian housekeeper and inventor of cuppa soup Elizabeth Raffald, and Annie Horniman, creator of the modern repertory theatre.

“Nothing is sacred. But we hope you have been paying attention because there will be a quiz, not a very serious one, with points and points mean prizes.”

For the past three decades LipService have been touring satirical shows taking potshots at the likes of James Bond, Norwegian detectives, Little Women and Sherlock Holmes.

One of their first productions was Withering Looks which looked at the lives of the Brontë family.

Visit squarechapel.co.uk or call 01422 349422 to book tickets.