Frodsham Players:

SET in Hilary Hall Boys' School, shortly after the Second World War, The Happiest Days of Your Life is a farce that would rival the antics in Fawlty Towers.

The play follows the hysterical confusion that ensues when the Ministry of Education makes a serious clerical error and re-houses a school full of girls to an all boys boarding school following an evacuation.

For a first night performance, Frodsham Players put on a commendable performance, which was laced with excellent comic moments and some strong character acting from the whole cast - most notably from Mike Arnold as the puzzled Rainbow, Gill Burd as the formidable Miss Evelyn Whitchurch and Paul Rigby-Jones as the equally formidable Edgar Sowter.

Quite clearly the cast revelled in the comedy and despite the fact that first night nerves resulted in a few stumbled lines, the production was really impressive.

The set design was also particularly good and the cast, and designers, made very good use of the space at their disposal.

My only criticism, which should perhaps be levelled more at the playwright John Dighton, than the cast, was the length of the second act, which really seemed to drag out quite unnecessarily