YORKSHIRE company Imitating The Dog is teaming up with the National Theatre of Greece and Cyprus to present the British premiere of Tales From The Bar Of Lost Souls after sell-out shows in Athens and Nicosia.

As part of the British Council Creative Collaboration programme, the innovative Leeds troupe will stage this ambitious production at Leeds Workshop Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday at 6pm and 7.30pm.

Part musical, part dream play, this magic-realist story of forbidden love, criminality and the possibility of finding redemption in the unlikeliest of places is set at the end of the life of a dying man.

Turning to a young woman to seek to put right a wrong committed many years ago, he recounts the story of his past, whereupon he is taken back to The Bar Of Lost Souls, a place where, it is said, the deepest desires become real.

The show takes as its starting point the melting pot of Mediterranean port communities, where notions of national borders and identity are challenged by the ever-changing mix of ethnicities and nationalities, the activity of commerce, the blurring of the lines between legal and criminal behaviour and by the suspension of the norms that attempt to govern sexual and political orthodoxy.

The design by Laura Hopkins requires the audience to watch the haunting sequence of tales of murder, love and forgiveness through the bar’s window, as a carnival of unsavoury characters reveals itself.

Imitating The Dog specialises in experimental performance work that tests both theatrical and narrative forms, using digital media, design and physical performance to create off-kilter worlds within which public and private obsessions – identity, death, love and sexuality – are explored.

For tickets, phone 0113 3438730 or visit stage.leeds.ac.uk/whatson