YOUNG actors take to the stage this month for a new play produced as part of The Berry Theatre’s Road to Agincourt project.

The Road to Glory tells the story of a group of young villagers, some of them barely out of childhood, who enlist in King Henry V’s army and set sail from Southampton to claim the throne of France for England.

Each has a different reason for going and their expectations vary, but none has any experience of fighting in a war.

The play follows them on their journey through France until finally they come face to face with the mightiest army in Europe. What happens will change their lives forever.

The Road to Glory is a new play by Neil Duffield, commissioned as part of The Berry Theatre’s Road to Agincourt project and forming part of the venue’s specialism in new writing.

The cast is made up of local young actors from across Hampshire.

It combines both fact and fantasy in a fast-paced, physical production that’s takes us from rural England to the bloodshed of the battle of Agincourt itself.

The Berry Theatre presents The Road to Glory on October 30 and 31. And on October 31, playwright Neil Duffield will discuss his career and the process of writing the play with its director Daniel Hill.

This will also be an opportunity to ask questions in an open discussion with the writer himself.

Neil Duffield has written more than 50 plays and adaptations, which have been staged extensively throughout Britain and abroad.

In 2006, his play The Lost Warrior won the Arts Council England Children’s Award ‘for work which displays excellence, inspiration and innovation in children’s theatre’.

Call 023 8065 2333 or visit theberrytheatre.co.uk.