YORK company Common Ground Theatre present a Great Yorkshire Fringe Free Fringe night at the 1331 café bar in Grape Lane, York, on July 23 from 8pm to 9pm.

"It will be an evening of story, spoken word and music with work-in-progress extracts from our artists' current projects," says company director, writer and performer Hannah Davies.

"We have a one-hour slot where we'll be doing an extract from David Jarman's show in development, Made Of Nowhere, and I'll be knocking out a small set of new poems hot off the press, three of them commissioned earlier this year by winners of a silent auction at a fundraiser for IDAS, the Independent Domestic Abuse Services."

Directed by Ruby Clarke, York playwright, poet and musician Jarman presents a showcase from his full-length piece now in development in association with York label Young Thugs Records.

In Made Of Nowhere, after scraping together his last few pounds and hitching a lift up north, Jarman sets out along the well-worn path that leads from one side of the country to the other. As he stumbles over the brutal curves of a land that doesn’t seem to know where on earth it’s heading anymore, he soon encounters versions of himself he thought he had left behind. It turns out that making progress isn’t as straightforward as it seems, as he reveals in his medley of spoken word, storytelling and live music.

Jarman was poet in residence at the Great Yorkshire Fringe and at the National Railway Museum last year and now holds that post within the NHS at York Hospital. He is a member of Sheffield Theatres Writers Group and his plays have been produced by York Theatre Royal and Theatre 503.

Hannah Davies, theatre-maker and multi-slam winning spoken-word artist, will be performing a work-in-progress spoken-word set built around three winning questions from the IDAS fundraiser: What is your favourite word? What's the best life advice to pass on to a little boy? What if there is a part of your body that you desperately want rid of?

"This show will be in the 1331 upstairs lounge, with free entry/pay what you feel as you leave," says Hannah. "Come early to guarantee a seat."