A CHESHIRE set production continues at The Lowry this week in Tim Firth's The Safari Party.

A dinner party's three courses are held in three Cheshire households. As the evening draws on, many truths are exposed, and matters turn both messy and violent.

The play continues until this Saturday and tickets, priced between £12 and £20, can be booked by ringing 0870 7875780.

n NOAH'S Ark: A Modern Twist on The World's Most Famous Nautical Tale unfolds on the high seas at Liverpool.

Walk The Plank presents this new show packed with caged monkeys, cats who believe the future will be feline, and a power crazed parrot which is cloning animals in the cargo holds.

Noah is gone and taking control of the helm are his research assistant Fiona and his unenthusiastic grandchild Francis, who find themselves tangled up in the chains of evolution.

The show plays at the Albert Dock from June 8 to 11 and tickets can be booked by ringing 0151 709 4988.

n THERE is still time to catch the magical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang before the flying car zooms out of Manchester.

The magical car sails the seas and flies through the air bringing back a host of memories at Manchester's Palace Theatre until this Saturday.

For a chance to catch Caractacus Potts, Jemima and Jeremy, together with Truly Scrumptious, Grandpa Potts, Baron and the Child Catcher ring 0870 401 3000.

n REMINISCING about their lives in 1950s London proves to be dangerous for three old friends in a play by Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter.

Old Times shows how the lives of filmmaker Deeley (Richard Stemp) and his wife of 20 years Kate (Jackie Drew) are affected when the beautiful Anna (Julie Hale) arrives.

In the couple's isolated farmhouse by the sea a battle of wills begins - an emotional duel in which past and present will merge with shattering consequences.

Old Times plays at The Lowry, Salford Quays, from June 21 to 24. Tickets, priced £10 to £16, are available from the box office on 0870 787 5793 or www.thelowry.com.

n EXPLOSIVE acrobatic encounters help a contemporary group explore the human condition at Chester Gateway next week.

Australia's latest contemporary clown circus C!RCA presents The Space Between from June 13 to 17.

Three performers journey through explosive acrobatic encounters and lyrical duets as they explore love, loss and desire, set to a blend of music from Jacques Brel's songs to JS Bach.

Tickets, priced from £6.50 to £12, are available from by calling the box office on 01244 340392 or at www.chestergateway.co.uk

n WHEN is an inn not an inn and when is a barmaid not a barmaid?

Why does a stepfather lie about his stepson's age and why does the son's mother end up in a horse pond? How can you be sure of marrying the right person?

All of these questions and more are answered in the Royal Exchange Theatre's production of She Stoops To Conquer, pictured below, until July 1 and tickets can be booked by ringing 0161 833 9833.