Review: Don't Dress For Dinner, at the Festival Theatre, Malvern (until Saturday, July 12).

THIS classic bedroom farce is the perfect pick-me-up remedy for the relieving of any of life's little cares or woes.

It bowls along at quite a pace - one funny line after another and plenty of action, including several unplanned incidents which simply added extra hilarity both for the audience and those on stage. One of these, a slap to the face which actually landed, was milked for all it was worth by the manic and outstanding Giles Watling and Vicki Michelle, the flirty Yvette in that wonderful television series Allo Allo.

And not far behind was Robert Duncan, well remembered for his role as Gus, the chief executive in Channel 4's award-winning comedy Drop The Dead Donkey.

Don't Dress, set in a converted French farmhouse, has all the ingredients needed of a successful farce - a philandering husband, a mistress or two, a cook, mistaken identities and chaotic confusion. It's farce at its very best, with so many twists and turns you really need a seat belt. One of those definitely not-to-be-missed shows. AW