COMEDY duo LipService have dropped into the Brontë Parsonage Museum to prepare their latest production.

The two women are due to present Charlotte-The Movie! in Haworth during the summer as part of the Charlotte Brontë bicentennial celebrations.

The film will be a comic version of the life story of the writer of classic novel Jane Eyre, at West Lane Baptist Centre on June 10.

“Lights! Cameras! Action!” declared excited museum staff in a tweet to followers today (January 29) after the women toured the house where Charlotte wrote the novels.

LipService, based in Manchester, are no strangers to the Brontë sisters after creating hit spoof Withering Looks in the 1980s.

They have performed the show many times since, at locations including Keighley and Haworth.

Now they are returning to the windswept moors with a production specially written to tie in with the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth.

LipService veterans Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding will perform as Audrey and Olivia of the National Institute for Bringing History to Life Society.

These two characters will in turn reform as Charlotte and Emily, while their sister Anne has just popped out for a cup of sugar.

A LipService spokesman said: “Audrey and Olivia have been given exclusive access to the parsonage to make one of the most revelatory films about Charlotte Brontë ever produced.

“In this insightful drama documentary, they reveal that Charlotte liked nothing better than to knock through and brighten up a drab corner with some choice chintz, that Emily had an insatiable penchant for mint humbugs and that Anne was the inspiration behind many of Alan Ayckbourn’s successful stage farces.”

Charlotte – The Movie! provides a light-hearted alternative to other entries in the Brontë Society’s official Brontë 200 programme, which includes academic debates, talks, tours and exhibitions.

The show will begin at 7.30pm. Visit bronte.org.uk/whats-on or call 01535 640188 for further information and to book tickets