The Phoenix Theatre and Arts Centre in Bordon will celebrate International Women’s Day with a play about palaeontologist and fossil hunter Mary Anning.

Born in 1799, Mary survived a lightning strike as a baby and found her first dinosaur fossil aged 12. She made extraordinary discoveries which changed the way people thought about evolution and predated Darwin's book On the Origin of Species.

In 2010 The Royal Society named her one of the ten most influential female scientists, and finds belatedly attributed to her are in museums around the world. NASA named a Mars drilling site after her.

Fossil Mary, by Phoenix associate artist Elizabeth Blake, is on March 7 at 7.30pm. For tickets, priced £16 or £15, call 01420 472664 or visit www.phoenixarts.co.uk