AUGUST 18 - 22 2004, BATH: Rehearsals are well advanced for the Bath Theatre Royal Education Department's annual Storm on the Lawn outdoor performance project, and this year's promises to be the biggest yet.

Following the success of such classic plays as The Odyssey and Arabian Nights, the Storm project will be Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, one of the best-known and best-loved musicals of all time.

My Fair Lady is Alan Jay Lerner's adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, in which Eliza Doolittle, the Covent Garden flower girl, is plucked from the streets by misogynist Professor Henry Higgins, who is convinced he can turn her into a lady.

For three weeks, under the supervision of 11 professional theatre practitioners, the cast of 60 young people have been working to create a spectacular open-air event in the atmospheric surroundings of the Ball Court at Prior Park College.

Circus skills, dynamite characters, cockney accents, song and dance will all combine in this piece to make for a stunning explosion of theatre.

The cast is made up of 60 young people aged from 12 to 21, as well as a backstage and technical crew made up of students working alongside the professional practitioners.

Alongside this, for the first time, a 20 piece orchestra has been assembled from some of the area's most talented young musicians.

My Fair Lady is being performed at the Ball Court, Prior Park College from Wednesday August 18 to Sunday August 22, each evening at 8pm, with a Saturday matinee at 2.45pm.

Tickets are priced at £10/£7 concessions, and can be booked from the Theatre Royal Box Office on (01225) 448844.