Chocolate and Quakers will be the unusual mixture going into a thought-provoking new play coming to Ilkley next week.

Acclaimed duo Plain Quakers will be performing their witty play, The Chocolate Paradox, at Ilkley’s Friends Meeting House, Queens Road, on Friday October 7.

This is the third play to be written and performed by Plain Quakers, better known as Arthur Pritchard and Mike Casey.

The first, Nine Parts a Quaker, told the story of Thomas Clarkson and Quaker involvement in the campaign to end the slave trade.

The second, On Human Folly, on John Woolman’s visit to England in 1772, was first seen at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2008, and has since had over 60 performances in England, Ireland, France and the Netherlands.

The Chocolate Paradox ranges widely through the landscape of economic injustice – tax evasion, sub-prime selling, bankers’ bonuses, economic slavery, and outright fraud.

In a small Yorkshire town, a group of friends are caught up in the consequences of global financial skullduggery.

Struggling to make sense of it they become involved in the performance of a play about Morris’s boyhood hero, George Cadbury, ‘the inventor of the most delicious chocolate bar ever’.

Morris is surprised to learn that Cadbury was a Quaker, and Albert finds out that Quakers have a thing or two to say about how to maintain honesty and integrity in the uncertain world of business.

Admission is free, and the performance starts at 7.30pm.