It has been some time since amateur dramatic companies have been satisfied producing Agatha Christie style murder mysteries or Alan Ayckbourn style comedies.

With Pewsey Amateur Dramatic Society stripping off in their recent production of The Graduate, it was only a matter of time before their Devizes rivals, the Wharf Theatre, also tackled more sexually driven themes.

They have chosen David Hare's The Blue Room, on tonight, tomorrow and Saturday, based on Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen, or La Ronde as it was when, as a sex-starved student in the 1960s, I sought it out for some intellectually justified cheap thrills.

Hare has updated it from 1900s Vienna to 2000s London, but the idea of partners moving on to liaison after liaison has been retained.

When it first appeared in London, Daily Telegraph described it as "pure theatrical Viagra" and that phrase will probably haunt him to the grave.

Schnitzler was talking about venereal disease but with modern anti-biotics, the shadow of the Grim Reaper has been removed from illicit couplings.

So Hare's sexual carousel is much more about personalities and relationships and he has a great deal more time for women's emotional requirements than men's reptilian brain-stem lust.

Frederica Dunstan's production at the Wharf is stylish, considered and accomplished.

She is fortunate to have found a cast of statuesque Cassandra Buxton and hunky John Scheurmier who between them take on the ten characters in the play. Mr Scheurmier has already shown what he is capable of in the recent production of Separate Tables but Miss Buxton was something of an unknown entity.

She is nothing short of a revelation. She looks a treat and all her characters are all well drawn, distinctive and totally convincing.

She portrays their strengths and vulnerabilities and each vignette is a delight; from Irene the Tart, through Marie the Au Pair, Emma the politician's trophy wife to the 17-year-old gum-chewing model, Kelly.

She is also sensationally sexy.

Mr Scheurmier has a more difficult task as Hare's male characters are very much of a muchness. They are self obsessed, manipulative and exploiting, and there are only so many ways you can act that.

Miss Dunstan's production is well paced, thorough and her set is very easy on the eye. Her cast works hard. They are not only obliged to perform but to change the scenes and carry out costume changes back-lit behind a very flimsy screen.

But fortune favours the brave and this is a production that is well worth seeing.