WILMSLOW Guild Players is promising a riotous evening of comedy with next week’s show.

Its next production is an over-the-top comedy with an equally over-the-top name.

The Haunted Through Lounge and Recessed Dining Nook at Farndale Castle, by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Junior, runs from October 25 to 28 at Wilmslow Guild, the adult education centre on Bourne Street.

Publicity officer Bill Beton said: “We’re tending to just call it Farndale Castle, but despite an unusually long name, this is a riotous comedy, close in many ways to pantomime.”

The play focuses on the exploits of the Farndale Avenue Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society, a struggling amateur theatre group run by the formidable Mrs Reece.

In this zany comedy they make a spectacle of themselves and their harassed producer to tell the tale of Marty and June - two lovers who come upon Farndale Castle after their car breaks down.

Vigorous sound effects enhance their spine-chilling mystery production, a tale of murder and mayhem guaranteed to bring down the house, or at least a substantial part of the set!

Bill added: “The Players chose this play because of the success of the last play in this series - Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of Macbeth, which they performed in 2011.

“There are about a dozen plays in the series, all of them with extravagantly long names.”

The play is being directed by long-standing Guild Players member Grace Reed.

“The play is again about the enthusiastic but incompetent ladies of the Farndale Townswomen's Guild who think they are performing a public service,” said Grace.

“All the characters are larger than life, and think they are Oscar material. We have had a great deal of fun at rehearsals and hope our audience realise that all the things which go wrong are intended.”

Tickets cost £7.50 and can be booked online at wgp.org.uk - there are no booking fees for booking online.

Alternatively they can be booked by calling 01625 520126 or emailing tickets@wgp.org.uk.