They have no acting or dance experience - but four Glasgow women have been chosen to star in a new show.

COAL, to be performed at Tramway, tells the story of the 1980s miner’s strike and life in the coal mining community.

After a call out across the city for women to perform in the dance theatre show, Annie Craig, Lillian Kerr, Janette Adams and Eileen McCrae have been picked to take part.

Annie, 46, said: "I have absolutely no dance or performance experience whatsoever.

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"But I am really delighted to be picked to take part. I have been a full time carer for the past 10 years and I'm a mum-of-five so this is something really different for me to try.

"My youngest has just started school and now I have more time on my hands - but I hadn't imagined I would be using it to perform in a show at Tramway.

"This is a brilliant opportunity."

COAL is being brought to Tramway, on the south side, by leading dance company Gary Clarke Company, and tells the story of a community fighting for its future.

Annie, Lillian, Janette and Eileen will play members of the women’s union Women Against Pit Closures in a short section of the play.

As told in the Evening Times last months, choreographer Gary Clarke looked for women who had connections to the mining industry for his show.

Annie grew up near Auchinleck, in East Ayrshire, and remembers the hardships the pit closures caused in the 1980s.

She said: "I was a teenage girl into clothes and boys but I remember there were a lot of strikes going on at the time.

"I remember an auntie coming round to collect donations and telling us that there were children with nothing; I donated a Snow White soap set to the cause so that another child could have a Christmas present.

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"I do know that the women who drove the protests against the pit closure also helped clear the way for women in the workplace.

"So this play honours an important group of women."

COAL marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the 1984/85 miners' strikes.

It will be performed at Tramway on September 30 and October 1. For tickets and information see www.tramway.org