Students from Filton College's South West Academy of Dramatic Arts (SWADA) are to tread the boards of the Wales Millennium Centre.

They are bringing one of Britain's best-loved animal tales, Watership Down, to the £106 million performing arts centre in Cardiff.

The musical is based on Richard Adams' fantasy story of a group of rabbits on a quest to find a new home, with a script by Bob Baker, a co-writer of three award-winning Wallace and Gromit films.

Musician Pete Watson has written the score.

Director Marie Baker said: "It is a real honour and privilege not only to be able to perform this piece at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, but also to be working with some of the finest young talent in the South West.

SWADA gives young people interested in the performing arts a unique opportunity to hone their skills in a professional work place."

The show runs from December 11 to 13 and tickets cost £8 or £5 for concessions.

For further information or to book tickets contact the Wales Millennium Centre direct on 0870 040 2000.

Filton College's BTEC National Diploma second year actors are bringing Shakespeare to the stage with a version of comedy The Taming of the Shrew.

The Filton students' production will see a drunken vagrant from 1970s Britain transported to Padua in Italy, for a series of comic schemes and adventures.

The show will be held at the Olympus Theatre, which is on the WISE Campus, next Wednesday and Thursday, with a matinee performance at 2.30pm and an evening performance at 7.30pm each day.

Tickets cost £6, or £3 for concessions, and post-show question and answer sessions can be arranged for school groups after the matinees.

For more information contact Saba McKinnon on 0117 919 2627 or by e-mail at saba.mckinnon@filton.ac.uk