Grayshott Stagers will perform Absurd Person Singular, Alan Ayckbourn's classic comedy of class relationships and social mobility, at Grayshott Village Hall from November 21 to 23 at 7.30pm.

Set in the early 1970s, the action takes place in three kitchens over three Christmases, at parties hosted by three couples, and moves seamlessly between moods of farce, pathos and tragedy.

It won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy of 1973 and became the most successful British comedy on Broadway since the Noel Coward era.

In 2018 The Times included Absurd Person Singular in a list of the 50 greatest plays ever written.

The cast features two Grayshott newcomers, Paul Baverstock and Jemma Jessup, as go-getting Sidney Hopcroft and his put-upon wife Jane, alongside long-time Stagers Eric Collins and Brezetta Thonger, as banker Ronald Brewster-Wright and his alcoholic wife Marion, and Richard Hosmer and Annie Bartholomew, as architect Geoffrey Jackson and his depressed wife Eva. Buff Cooper and Ingrid Collins are the raucous, but unseen, Dick and Lottie Potter.

The play is directed by Steffen Zschaler, who directed Guildburys Theatre Company's acclaimed 2023 production of Cyrano de Bergerac.

For tickets, priced £14, call 07575 089322 or visit https://www.grayshottstagers.co.uk