A THRILLING new production featuring storytelling, music, dance and drama is coming to Dorset.

Drumming company Kodo will perform at Lighthouse, Poole, on February 20.

Their production Mystery is designed to reflect the beauty and mystery of Japanese traditions throughout the ages.

Featuring 15 of Kodo’s highly trained Taiko (Japanese percussion instruments) performers, Mystery is the second touring work to be directed by the company’s artistic director, the celebrated Kabuki actor Tamasaburo Bando.

Hailing from Sado Island off the northern coast of Japan, Kodo is the first and most influential Taiko ensemble in the world, comprising a troupe of musicians and dancers who transform centuries-old traditional Japanese ritual and performing arts into exhilarating, contemporary stage shows.

Tamasaburo Bando said: “With this new show Mystery, my aim is to create just that: a world of mystery.

"In the folk arts that have been handed down through the generations in Japan, there’s a form of sacredness, an air of mystery within prayers which, in our show, is expressed by the drums."

The show begins at 7.30pm. Contact Lighthouse for tickets.