Riding Lights Theatre Company is on tour with its Christmas spectacular, On Christmas Night.

Having playing the region’s primary schools, the York company is making two appearances today, at St Michael le Belfrey Church at 2pm (box office, 01904 624190) and Heslington Methodist Church at 7pm (01904 412300).

The play, with cast members Jo Faith Habershon, Rachel Price, Jonathan Boustead and Charles Hanley tells how two shepherds become embroiled in the events of the first Christmas as they try to find accommodation for a young mum-to-be, aided by Snowy, their woolly accomplice.

Further performances follow at Holgate Methodist Church next Saturday at 2pm (01904 798437); All Saints’ Church Hall, Hessle, near Hull, December 19 at 2pm (01482 645398); Gateway Church, Acomb, on December 19 at 7pm (01904 781983); Nawton Memorial Hall, Nawton, on December 21 at 2pm (01439 772090); and Haxby and Wigginton Methodist Church on December 22 at 7pm (01904 768326).