"It is in rhyme and I have been writing limericks and poetry ever since I can remember," she said.

Cinderella is a 45-minute show that will be performed at the Etz Chaim Synagogue leisure club on Tuesday, January 20.

"It's the first time I've had the opportunity for anything to be produced," she said. "I wrote a book of limericks a year ago and raised £70 for the Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's Rainbow Project."

Betty had originally hoped to watch the pantomime being performed, but her friend, Zena Rosenberg, who was to play an ugly sister with Thalia Courtney, was unwell - and so Betty will take over the part.

"I don't need any make-up," she laughed. Leeds-born Betty added that joining the Centre Players had changed her life.

"They are the loveliest group of people I have had the pleasure to be with," she said.

Betty, nee Freeman, left Cowper Street School at 14 to go into shoe business!

"I became a shoe sales assistant until the Second World War," she recalled. "Then I married Barry Brown, a plumber, for 37 years. He died in 1977 so I have been a widow for 31 years."

She has a son, Franklin, in Alwoodley, and a daughter, Linda Sellman in Harrogate. She has six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

"I've started all over again," she added. "The drama group is the focus of my life."