MIKRON Theatre Company is getting All Steamed Up about its 31st year of national waterways touring with a new production in Bromsgrove on Sunday.
It is about Richard Trevithick, the Cornish engineer, inventor and pioneer of steam.
Mikron's four actor-musicians have set off on their annual journey around the waterways on board their 66-year-old narrowboat Tyseley and as they head along their canals, they will stop off at Bromsgrove's Ladybird Inn, Finstall Road, Aston Fields.
They will tell the tale, set in the Christmas 1801, of the young Trevithick who took some friends for a ride on his latest invention up Cambourne Hill.
The vehicle was the world's first self-propelled steam engine - 28 years before Stephenson's rocket - and Trevithick's fame and fortune seemed assured, yet 32 years later he died in poverty.
It starts at 5pm and there are no ticket prices - actors will take a collection after the show, which is sponsored by the Welconstruct Company, Ladybird Inn, Wild & Co and Sunrise Windows, of Redditch.
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