GRANGE Drama group kicks off a fresh programme of popular play readings at Grange Institute, next Thursday, January 5 (7.30pm) with a classic from Alan Ayckbourn.

Table Manners, one of the master playwright's Norman Conquests trilogy, was the first full length play of Alan Ayckbourn's that GD ever staged, in 1997, directed by Kath Bolton. On January 19, also at Grange Institute, the acclaimed group will read linked pieces from Alan Ayckbourn’s Confusions, followed by the first public airing of Ken Smyth’s latest one act play Who Do You Think You Are.