AMBLESIDE Players' spring production is Tim Firth's comedy The Safari Party, playing the Kelsick Centre from next Wednesday-Saturday, April 8-11 (7.30pm)

Directed By Trish Donson, it tells of three households in Cheshire who have agreed to hold a 'safari party' - a dinner party, each course of which is served at a different house. The hors d' oeuvres are served by Daniel and Adam, brothers whose abusive father was recently shot dead, the main course by Lol and Esther, upwardly-mobile and vulgar, and the dessert by Inga, a seemingly benign antique dealer.

The three households are linked not just socially - there's apparently the whole question of the table.

Ben Abdelnoor plays Adam, Phil Higgins is Daniel, Bridget is played by Faye Buckley, Esther by Jenny Kynman, Barry Porter takes the role of Lol and Moira Rowlinson is Inga.

Tickets are available at Fred Holdsworth bookshop, Ambleside (next door to Whittakers) and online.