THE extraordinary world of a troubled family will be told in rich and saucy Scots dialect at the Malvern Cube.

A contemporary take on folk and fairytale storytelling traditions, The Red Chair tells the story of a father who eats and eats until he turns into the chair he is sitting upon, the wife doomed to cook his meals and their 'inveesible' daughter.

By turns haunting and humorous, it takes audiences on a journey through a landscape of twisted reason, extreme compulsion and eye watering complacency, where domestic drudgery happens on an operatic scale and a father’s dereliction of duty reaches epic proportions.

Woven into the production is an original sound score created by Clod Ensemble co-artistic director Paul Clark.

Director Suzy Willson said “[Artist] Sarah Cameron has worked with Clod Ensemble as a performer for many years.

"When she showed us the book she had been working on called The Red Chair we were blown away both by the quality of the language and by the power of the central image of a father who turns into the chair he is sitting upon. "It is both mythic and contemporary, funny and heartfelt.

"It speaks of family and of ancestry - all the while conjuring up the wild beauty of the Scottish landscape."

The Red Chair comes to Malvern Cube on Friday, June 19 at 8pm with tickets, costing £12, available online at malverncube.com or by calling 01684 575363.