The latest work of a Warsop playwright, who uses her mining communities background as inspiration, is to be staged on the West End.

Beth Steel’s Till The Stars Come Down, which had a sold-out run at the National Theatre, is transferring to London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket and will run until 27th September.

The play follows family drama at a wedding in Mansfield on a hot summer’s day. Sylvia, a former miner’s daughter, is to marry Marek, who is part of the growing Polish community in a changing world post-Brexit.

Resentments, secrets, relationships and insecurities surface as the main larger-than-life protagonists get together — including Sylvia’s two sisters and Aunty Carol, played by Mansfield-born Dorothy Atkinson who was recently seen on television’s Ludwig.

The daughter of a miner and a former Meden School student, Beth is a self-taught playwright who went to live and work in Greece after leaving school, before then settling in London

Beth (pictured) said the West End transfer was unexpected. “I felt that because I write about where I’m from and it is so culturally specific, it would never get a commercial offer,” she added.

“I was absolutely fine with that, because as a writer you have to make the work you want to make, and I’ve been lucky and worked in some incredible spaces. So, it wasn’t on the wish list for the fairy to come and tap me on the shoulder.

“It is a play where you are going to laugh, gasp, cry, and recognise yourself in.

“It is a family affair and like any family affair it has its past, its secrets, its present — and its hopes for the future. It is about a community and a family on the brink of their life changing.”

A former writer-in-residence at the National Theatre, her other acclaimed plays include Wonderland, The House of Shades, and Ditch.

Wonderland was set in Welbeck Colliery and portrayed the lives of mineworkers underground contrasted with national politics on the cusp of the 1984 miners’ strike.

Dorothy told RadioTimes.com: “It’s set in a very particular area that’s not been represented and I’m championing that because I’m from that area originally.

“My mum and my sister still live there, so I’ve got a rich experience of these kind of women who are tough women – but they’re not tough in a negative way. They’re strong and resilient and funny. So I’ve been lucky that I can draw on that.”