Nottingham-based company Arletty Theatre will perform at Buxton Fringe Swan Canaries, a musical play about the Chilwell Canary Girls who packed shells during World War I at the biggest factory of its kind in England.
Swan Canaries is about an explosion at National Shell Filling Factory Number 6 at Chilwell in Nottinghamshire and the women who worked there.
On 1 July, 1918 eight tonnes of TNT exploded, killing 130 workers. The survivors returned to work three days later.
Despite their heroism and sacrifice, their story was kept quiet to prevent the location of the factory becoming common knowledge.
Starting with a traditional tea dance and including songs from the era, Swan Canaries “promises to take the audience back to wartime Britain and show how important the home front really was”.
It will be staged in Buxton United Reformed Church on Friday 25 July at 7:30PM and Saturday and Sunday, 26 and 27 July, at 7:30PM.