TWO community plays have been written and directed by a BBC writer/producer living in Almondsbury.

Loretta Preece has writtn the plays: one about the award winning community shop and the second is about our polling station over three general elections (1997, 2005, 2015).

The plays are entirely produced and performed by people living in the village and include local celebrity John Tovey and his guide dog, who will be playing themselves in both plays, and three generations of one Almondsbury family.

The plays are a blend of Almondsbury fact and fiction and local MP Jack Lopresti is coming along in support

They are to be performed in situ in the village shop and the polling station in back to back performances at various times throughour the afternoon and evening on June 11, as part of the Queen's birthday celebrations in the village.

Kirstie Stanway, head of make up on BBC Casualty will be aging the cast over 20 years of changing fashions and using her skills, she will custom make a prosthetic pregnancy bump for one of our characters.

Both plays are life affirming, comic and romantic. They celebrate community, democracy and locality. And in the year of one of the most significant elections of our lives; we examine British habits of voting and the particular atmosphere of a polling station when the country on the brink of a huge national decision.