RUBERY drama group's Bedroom Farce had the audience rolling in the aisles on its opening night at Beacon Church Centre.

The Alan Ayckbourn production, brilliantly directed by David Morris, opened at the Whetty Lane venue last Thursday.

Set in three bedrooms over the course of a Saturday night it tells the interwoven stories of four couples.

Fourteen-year-old Joe Reiner was outstanding as Trevor, a character torn between his insecure wife and his former lover, and in Joe, the youth group has certainly found a star for the future.

Husband and wife team, Bob and Angela Sawyer, were excellent playing the roles of Delia and Ernest, a couple celebrating their anniversary.

Bob got the best lines of the show and made the most of them, keeping the audience completely tickled with his self-deprecating mannerisms and quiet exhaustion at his wife's nagging.

Gemma Linforth, who played Jan, used the stage well and got a good share of the laughs for her ever-decreasing patience with her husband Nick, played by Ian Kimberley, whose dramatic wails of back pain had the audience in fits.

Caroline Gabb played vulnerable Susannah very well and the audience was rooting for her to make amends with her husband.

Kate and Malcolm, the only genuinely happy couple in the show, were played with aplomb by Julie Brotherhood and Dave Morgan.

The set designers and lighting engineers must also get a mention for creating the three-bedrooms so convincingly.

Rubery drama group should be proud of themselves for putting on such an excellent performance.

KH