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Good Friday plays and public processions to mark Easter story in cities and towns

Street processions, passion plays and church services are among the poignant events being held in communities across the region on Good Friday.

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Christian Walk of Witness in Walsall in 2022

In Stafford there will be a passion play depicting the Easter story which will be performed in the town centre on Friday and Saturday.

It will be performed by Dudley’s Saltmine Theatre Company twice each day at 11am and 3pm. Good Friday's performances will feature sign language.

Locations include Victoria Park, in Tenterbanks; Stafford’s county court building; St Mary’s green; and St Mary’s Collegiate Church, in St Mary’s Place.

Walsall churches' Walk of Witness, followed by a service, will be held in Park Street from 10.30am.

Churches Together in Lichfield host a procession and service starting from Three Spires shopping centre off Baker's Lane from 8.15am to midday. There will be a service at Lichfield Cathedral at 7.30pm.

Birmingham's city centre Walk of Witness will start at 10am at Church in Carrs Lane, in Carrs Lane, and finish at St Chad’s Cathedral, in St Chad’s Queensway, in Snow Hill.