THE Norbury Theatre’s production of Situation Comedy is both enjoyable and full of laughs.

Directed by Sue Imms, the show is well-presented and the six-strong cast make the most of Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke’s well-crafted and demanding script.

The plot centres around sitcom writers Charles Summershill (Mike Jeffrey) and Arthur Grey (Andy Brown) desperately in need of inspiration for their next series.

One is married to a sexpot who can’t cook (Jane Huxley), the other to a great cook lacking creation in the bedroom (Melanie Jeffrey).

A drunken evening viewing holiday photographs leads to a bit of ‘wife swapping’ which inadvertently becomes the centrepiece of the writing duo’s next work.

Jeffrey and Brown play well off each other and provide the majority of the humour, while Melanie Jeffrey and Huxley gave good performances as the chalk and cheese spouses.

Maggie Withers was entertaining as Miss Trotter, the town gossip, while David Goode brought a smile to the face as the interfering, slightly camp, agent.

The Benny Hill-inspired scene towards the end, in which the cast went broad Yorkshire and Goode dressed as an Arab was also a nice, if slightly bizarre, touch.

It should also be said that the dialogue was excellently delivered and unprompted throughout.

It’s just a shame there weren’t more people there to see the show on the opening night because it deserved better.

The production runs until tonight.