The show goes on for Bingley Little Theatre - even when all the cast have gone home and the lights are turned off.

Its website, set up by Bradford University computer ace Tim Bentley, has attracted interest from far and wide including America, Australia, Canada and Pakistan.

Tim said: "We decided to put it together to try and raise our profile and create some interest and I am very, very pleased with the response.

"The sheer variety has been interesting. I was expecting queries about when the shows were on and how much they cost but we've had three separate queries from Pakistan.

"One of them wanted to know if they could put on one of their plays here and someone wanted to study theatre over here.

"A lot of it is other theatre companies asking for advice and we try and point them in the right direction.

"We had one from Canada asking if we wanted to put on one of our shows over there.

"Some of the queries are more difficult such as how did we make a working sink in Single Spies or how did we get the smile in Shirley Valentine."

The website www.bingleylittletheatre.f9.co. is given free access by Force Internet service provider and has cost nothing to set up apart from Tim's time in getting the pages up and running.

He has plans to provide more material including a newsletter which should be on-line and details of social events.

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