TWIGGY is looking forward to getting out and about in Malvern when she visits the town to star in Mrs Warren's Profession.

The model turned actress will be appearing as the lead character in George Bernard Shaw's sharp and witty morality play.

"I'm going to bring my car along and go for some outings. I've never been to Malvern before but my son (Jason Lawson) was in Three Sisters there last year and apparently it's beautiful," she said.

The play tells the story of Mrs Warren's Cambridge-educated daughter, Vivie, who has high principles and low tolerance.

Her standards are threatened when it is discovered that her monthly allowance is backed up by her mother's chain of European brothels.

"It's an extraordinary play," said Twiggy, who is two weeks into a ten-week countrywide tour. "The more we perform it the more amazed we are with it. You've got to remember that it was written by a man in the late 1890s and these are modern 'new' women characters.

"This was before women's lib and Shaw was still perceptive enough to see the double standards of it being ok for men to visit prostitutes but not all right for women to be them."

Twiggy has won two Golden Globe Awards for her performance in Ken Russell's 1971 film The Boyfriend and enjoyed starring in a television version of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.

But she is still best remembered as Twiggy: waif supermodel. So does she wish she could return to the 60s?

"Absolutely not. I was an insecure teenager and I love my life now."

Mrs Warren's Profession runs at Malvern Theatres from Monday, June 2, to Saturday, June 7. Shows are at 8pm with 2.30pm matinees on Wednesday and Saturday. Tickets cost from £12 to £20 from 01684 892277.