MUSIC enthusiasts in Wrexham have taken action so their performance goes ahead, despite the coronavirus outbreak.

The Llangollen Players, who formed last year by the town’s vicar, Father Lee Taylor, was set to hold its fourth Victorian-style production on May 1 in front of a live audience, but have now decided to do it online instead due to the Government's guidelines on social gatherings.

On Wednesday, 1 April, the group will be going behind closed doors when at least four of the group will perform on their usual stage while the show is streamed live on their own Facebook page, The Collen Players.

Father Taylor, who acts as on-stage chairman for the shows and also performs comedy songs in them, said: “When it became clear we wouldn’t be able to get ahead with our May show in front of our usual audience, we got together and decided the best way was to stream something live instead.

“We’re going to do it a month earlier than planned because I expect quite a number of our regular audience will by that time be self-isolating and we’re aiming to cheer them up best we can with our show.

“Naturally, we’ll be taking every necessary precaution to ensure that none of our performers are at risk of passing on any infection.

“We will all be allocated individual rooms or spaces in the Community Hall on arrival so we don’t have to worry about coming into contact with anyone, and they’ll then perform on stage one by one.

“It will be a shorter performance than usual, with songs and monologues and things like that, and at the end we won’t be socialising as we usually do but all heading straight home.

“We hope that the show will bring a little happiness in all the gloom surrounding coronavirus and that as many people as possible will tune it to see it.”

So far, the group have donned their period costumes to present three sell-out shows in the Community Hall, which is always dressed for the occasion to recreate the atmosphere of a turn-of-the-century theatre.