FOUR generations of women play out their lives in the Rossendale Players' latest show, "My Mother Said I Never Should".

Sheila Godfrey, Carol Anne Connolly (pictured) and Kirsten Dunkley play the great-grandmother, grandma and mum of an Oldham family, while 14-year-old Alison Ashworth, of Waterfoot, makes her debut as the youngest member of the family.

The all-female play by Charlotte Keatley shows the enormous social changes of the twentieth century through the lives of four women. It was a hit when it was first performed at Manchester's Contact Theatre, and has since toured the world.

Kirsten Dunkley, who is also producing the show, hopes it will be just as popular at the society's New Millennium Theatre, Waterfoot.

The show opens on Saturday and runs to Saturday, February 10, except on Monday, Feburary 5, at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £5 or £4 and are available by calling 01706 228720, and from Bacup News, Bacup, Watts News, Waterfoot, and Rawtenstall Tourist Information Centre.