YORK company Riding Lights is on tour with its Passion Play for Lent 2015, Inheritance by Bridget Foreman.

Playing churches, cathedrals and community centres in England and Wales since February 27, the production returns home this weekend for a 7.30pm performance at York Minster on Saturday, followed by a second Yorkshire show at St James’s Church, Wetherby, on Wednesday at 7.30pm. Five weeks of travels conclude on Easter Eve, April 4, in Grange-over-Sands.

Inheritance weaves the strands of the biblical Passion into a dramatic narrative, exploring in particular Jesus’s encounters with women in the gospels, while evoking the community where Jesus lived, the people who knew him best and the powers that brought him to execution.

In the shadow of the cross, it casts light on the women who Jesus stands alongside, sharing in their suffering.

Foreman's play begins on a dusty road leading to Jerusalem, where a woman Tovah (played by Miriam Swainsbury) stumbles towards her judgement. Only weeks later, Jesus (Kolade Agboke) will take the same road, leading to the cross.

In Capernaum, the town both Jesus and Tovah call home, they are rejected. In the temple where they worship they are condemned. The synagogue leader, Jairus (Varujan Smallwood) plots to destroy them both.

Inheritance is described as "more than a play to be performed for an audience; it is also a communal experience of theatre and worship". Each performance is structured to ensure that audience members have the time and opportunity to reflect on Christ’s Passion and, finally, to make their own response at the foot of the cross.

"Echoing through time, Inheritance renews our expectations of the kingdom of heaven and who might share its inheritance," says Bridget, whose script is complemented by a score by York cellist Emma Leaman-Brown.

Tickets for Sunday cost £10, concessions £8, children £5, on 01904 557208; for Wednesday, £5, under £18s free, on 01937 583074.