The young actors of the Festival Players have been rehearsing their next play, the Agatha Christie murder mystery comedy Spider’s Web – and they're doing it all online.

With social distancing making physical proximity impossible, the on-line ‘conference rehearsal’ was set up by the youngsters in the hope that they may yet be able to perform the play in July as planned.

Alex McCullough, who is playing Sir Rowland Delahay in Spider’s Web, and helping to produce the play arranged for everyone to be at home on Sunday afternoon (which they were anyway) and brought about the online rehearsal.

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Spider’s Web is the second most successful Agatha Christie play of the 1950s, after the record-breaking The Mousetrap.

If restrictions are lifted, the Festival Players are planning to present the show on July 16 in Broadway, on July 17 in Bidford, Evesham Arts Centre on July 22 and at Number 8 in Pershore on July 24 – as usual with an entirely teenage cast.

Festival Players founder and director Eric Jones, who is producing Spider’s Web, said: "They are a fantastic bunch of teenage drama enthusiasts.

"Thank goodness they know how to set up a conference rehearsal because I surely do not!"