A play about the Lockerbie air disaster is coming to the Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery on September 25 at 7.30pm.

Terrorists blew up Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on the night of December 21, 1988.

Godalming-based LynchPin Theatre is staging Deborah Brevoort’s The Women of Lockerbie, which is set exactly seven years after the event.

Women from the town have set up the Laundry Project to wash the 11,000 items of clothing belonging to victims, which are still being held in a warehouse as forensic evidence, and return them to the victims’ families - but they encounter an unco-operative USA government.

Meanwhile bereaved American couple Maddie and Bill visit Lockerbie for the first time in a bid to finally put the past behind them. At midnight on December 21, 1995, these stories collide with pathos, compassion and humour in a powerful script.

LynchPin Theatre is a professional company mounting small-scale productions. Founded in 1999 by director Jack Lynch and actor Edie Campbell, it creates compelling theatre with a particular focus on seldom-heard voices.

Jack Lynch trained in Colorado and Iowa, and has taught in Greenwich and Guildford since moving to the UK. He co-wrote Emily Dickinson and I, Cloning Mary Shelley, Consider This… and You Give Me Fever - the Phaedra Cabaret. He also created ScripTease - rehearsed readings of plays old and new - which ran from 2009 to 2019.

Deborah Brevoort hails from Alaska and now lives near New York. She is best known for The Women of Lockerbie, which won the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays Award and the silver medal in the Onassis International Playwriting Competition. It has had more than 750 productions and been translated into nine languages.

For tickets, priced £15, call 01730 262601 or visit www.petersfieldmuseum.co.uk/events/women-lockerbie