CLASSIC drama Billy Liar will be performed at West Lane Baptist Centre in Haworth on Saturday.

Tickets for the 7.30pm presentation will be available on the door that night and will cost £10 for adults and £8 for concessions.

Martin Sherlock-Knowles, from Paper Zoo Theatre Company, said Billy Liar provided a hilarious and sometimes painfully truthful insight into family life.

He added: “It is a seminal play about a lad with dull surroundings but a fantastic imagination.”

Billy Liar began life as a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse, and was later adapted into a play, film, musical and TV series.

The story has inspired and featured in a number of popular songs.

The semi-comical story is about William Fisher, a working-class 19-year-old boy living with his parents in the fictional town of Stradhoughton, which is somewhere in Yorkshire.

Bored by his job as a lowly clerk for an undertaker, Billy spends his time indulging in fantasies and dreams of life in the big city as a comedy writer.