Balham’s award-winning theatre company Southside is to stage a passionate drama of feuding families and forbidden love.

The group will perform Blood Wedding, by Federico Garcia Lorca next month.

The billing reads: "When the first love of a young bride reappears to claim her - the night before she is due to marry another - his arrival stirs the flames of a family feud. Violent revenge is as inevitable in a society bound by unforgiving rules of blood and honour."

Southside’s production promises to evoke the colour and heat of 1930s Andalusia through the power and poetry of Ted Hughes’ adaptation.

Blood Wedding will be staged in the Chestnut Grove Theatre at Chestnut Grove School, in Boundaries Road, Balham, from 26 to 29 October.

It starts at 7.45pm - 5pm on Saturday. Tickets cost £10, concessions £6.

To book call 07914 657 524 or visit southsideplayers.org.uk.