A PLAY based on people's experiences of living on a Leyton estate will be performed there to mark the start of its demolition.

Home, by the Offstage Theatre company, will be shown in a three-bedroom flat in one of the towers on the Beaumont Estate in Leyton this month.

Professional actors will perform the play in the flat's various rooms while the audience is led around following the action.

In March landlord Forest Homes will demolish the first of the tower blocks, as part of a regeneration project where families are being moved out of their high rise life into streets of new build houses on the same land.

Offstage Theatre has spent the past three months interviewing and videoing former and current residents of the estate from all ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds, including elderly couples, teenagers, single mothers and schoolchildren.

Young playwright Gbolahan Obisesan used the interviews to inspire the play, which will involved video projections and sound recordings of the area as well as traditional scenes performed by a company of professional actors.

Director and company founder Cressida Brown said: "We are involving local people in absolutely every stage of the process.

"The piece has been created from local people's comments on what the buildings represent to them, what living here was like and how they feel about the impending destruction.

"Even our poster was designed from an art competition we held at the local primary school."

Ms Brown added: "The West End is so expensive these days, well beyond the reach of most residents in this area.

"For some people, our show could be their first experience of professional theatre and we hope that the fact it is in and about their former home will make it all the more exciting."

Home runs from January 18 to February 4 and residents of the estate can buy subsidised tickets for £2.

Full price tickets are £8 and £6 concessions.

For audience members coming from further afield, complimentary taxis will pick up at Walthamstow Central station's car park for the trip to the estate. For more information and box office call 7424 9441.