I HAVE to thank Swindon Young Actors for one of the most rumbustious, hilarious and entertaining evenings I have ever spent in a theatre.

The setting seemed to be a Mediterranean Night Club, complete with well-stocked bar, an abundance of coloured lighting and music in very much the modern, idiom with costumes to match.

The play itself is of course a riotous binge of cross dressing, confused sexual roles, an abundance of verbal double takes and innuendos, mistaken identities, erroneous intention and a high level of sheerly consummate slapstick which the actors exploited to the full.

I have to confess I enjoyed every moment of this wonderful and exhilarating production.

Modern youth is apt to come in for a fair amount of flak, but this production demonstrated what they can achieve given some inspired and dedicated direction.

And whoever they were, the adults who must have scorned delights to live so many laborious days in rehearsing these youngsters to such a pitch of professional aplomb surely ought to be given some civic award in recognition of their service perhaps The Freedom Of Swindon!

There was a suggestion that this gifted company was honoured to be allowed to play in Swindon's Wyvern Theatre; I could not help thinking that perhaps it is the theatre which should feel honoured to have been visited by such a magically inspired and accomplished company.

J Papworth

Purton