LIFE'S greatest pleasures - food, sex and Elvis, they claim - are celebrated in a new play teaming a top theatre company with a leading writer.

Cooking with Elvis is by Lee Hall, who wrote Billy Elliot, Spoonface Stienberg and the BBC's Ted and Alice and it comes to Worcester's Swan Theatre at the end of the month.

It is being performed by the acclaimed Hull Truck Theatre Company and directed by its associate artistic director Gareth Tudor Price - all of which has combined to promise a quality adult comedy.

The story is about an amateur Elvis impersonator who is paralysed in a car crash, leaving his wife and daughter forced to cope.

One tries to replace him with cooking, the other with sex but it all goes even more pear-shaped when they both try using their talents to snare the same man.

The show is described as 'part knockabout farce, part cookery course, part philosophical investigation' and has some explicit moments, leaving it deemed unsuitable for under 16s.

It stars Hull Truck regulars Jackie Lye, Natalie Blades and Chris Connell and joining the company for the first time is Sean Oliver.

Swan Theatre spokeswoman Bridget Moore said: "This dark comedy is guaranteed to make you laugh and at the same time, give your conscience a sharp jab, as Hall ensures there's no comfort zone to fall back on.

"Oozing with decadence, humour, nostalgia and a large dose of taboo, Cooking with Elvis leads you into a tangled web of bizarre affairs."

It runs at The Swan from Monday, October 31 to Saturday, November 5 and starts at 7.30pm.

Tickets are £10 to £16.50. Call the box office on 01905 611427 to book a place.