NEWCOMERS Samatha Reddy and Deborah Frodsham have key roles in Longsdon Amateur Dramatic Society's production of Ayckbourn's Time Of My Life.

Time Of My Life is one of Ayckbourn's "time plays," in which a family's marital failures are examined in the past, present and future.

The setting is a restaurant where Gerry Stratton has organised a family dinner with his sons Glyn and Adam to celebrate his wife Laura's birthday.

Samatha plays Maureen, new girlfriend of Adam, and Deborah is cast as Stephanie, long-suffering wife of Glyn, a serial womaniser.

Glyn's story moves forward in time and Adam's backwards, while the crisis in Gerry and Laura's relationship unfolds in the present.

Supporting Samatha and Deborah in this promising new production are John and Suzanne Sillitoe, Tim Johnston Jones, Iain Peacock and Mark Shadforth. It will be performed at Longsdon Memorial Hall from March 24 to 27 (call 01538 373212).

Meanwhile fans of our most prolific playwright still have time to catch Congleton Players' production of Ayckbourn's Absent Friends, which continues at The Daneside Theatre in Park Road tonight and tomorrow at 7.30pm. Tel 01260 271095.

Or you could pay a visit to Old Peking and Mrs Twankey's Chinese takeaway before the Audley Players Theatre Club wind up their sparkling panto, Aladdin.

The show can be seen at Audley Theatre tonight at 7.30pm and tomorrow at 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Call 01782 720708/721588.

Next week, Stafford Players present Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, the comedy based on a story by Oscar Wilde, at the Gatehouse Theatre, from February 9 to 13 at 7.30pm. Call 01785 254653.