ESSEX-based comedy improv troupe, Lady's Inconvenience is about to make their home county debut.

Set up by Witham actor and comedian Amy Trigg, the group will be taking to the stage of the Headgate Theatre in Colchester next week with their own brand of comedy which has been a year in the making.

Amy explains: "As part of my acting training I did a bit of comedy and after I left I decided I wanted to do more improvised stuff but the only problem was most of the venues are pretty inaccessible to someone like me."

That's because from the age of eight, Amy has been in a wheelchair.

"This is due to Amy being born with spina bifida, a condition which means the spine hasn't developed properly leaving an incomplete closing of the membranes around the spinal chord.

Not that the condition had stopped her smashing the whole theatre and comedy thing for that matter.

Back in 2015, Amy got a three-months placement with the Mercury Theatre as part of the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme.

As part of her time she assisted on both the Colchester theatre's summer show Wind in the Willows and their updated 'Essex' version of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

Since then she picked up the Colchester New Comedian of the Year Award and last year toured with a smash hit production of The Who's rock opera Tommy.

So it's amazing she's even found the time to set up a new comedy group.

"There's a whole group of us," she adds, "from all over Essex and it is a bit of a logistical nightmare to get together for rehearsals and shows.

"Our first was in Kings Cross last year and the Colchester one will be our second."

Billed as their own sort of version of Whose Line Is It Anyway, with BSL signing, the show takes place at the Headgate Theatre, Chapel Street North, Colchester, on Thursday, July 27, at 8pm.

Tickets are £8, available by calling 01206 366000.