AUDIENCES at Malvern are being promised "an intoxicating and adventurous dash around the world", to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of the famous novelist, Graham Greene.

His "Travels with my Aunt" will come to Malvern Theatres from May 17 to May 21, in a stage version from the company that recently brought 'A Christmas Carol' to Malvern Festival Theatre.

A spokesman said: "Creative Cow is back once again and they promise an evening of intoxicating adventure in an adaptation of Graham Greene’s most entertaining of books, ‘Travels With My Aunt’.

Greene himself said: "It is the only book I have ever written for the fun of it."

The spokesman said: "The play takes its audience on a whirlwind journey, plotting one very ordinary man’s extraordinary journey of self-discovery.

"Creative Cow chose to tour with Travels with my Aunt to mark this year’s 25th anniversary of Graham Greene’s death. Just four actors will represent 20 colourful characters - each playing a part in retired, rather boring, suburban bank manager Henry Pulling’s great transformation."

The unlikely hero of the play, Henry, leads a quiet, risk-free and dull, bachelor life. He is effectively retired from work, life and the world until his eccentric Aunt Augusta persuades him to travel with her to Brighton and Paris, then on to Istanbul and across the world to Paraguay. Through her influence, Henry joins a shifty twilight society of pot-smoking hippies, war criminals, men from the CIA and hard core art smugglers. He puts his colourless and predictable life behind him as he finds himself changing beyond recognition.

The storyline mirrors Greene’s own real life obsession with travelling, often to the most dangerous spots on the planet, but also takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the fictional world created by Greene in his seventeen previous novels.

Other aspects of Greene’s life; his secret service work and his brushes with criminals, are all represented in the plot.

The spokesman added: "Unlike Greene’s other works which are inextricably concerned with the future of the soul and the afterlife, Travels with My Aunt explores the here and now."

Tickets are on sale at the Box Office 01684 892277 and online at malvern-theatres.co.uk