Seeing Producer MARK FRANK and Director CECILY O'NEILL'S excellent revival of ANDREW DAVIES' 1989 play gives us, in this week when our nation is coping with the loss of our very own blue rinsed Stalin, an opportunity to ponder the changes that seem to have occurred in recent years in our culture, morality, education and class systems. The comedy is top notch, though Davies may not give us quite enough to mourn here.

ROS LIDDIARD gives a star performance as the formidable and crushingly witty Principal of a College of Education. Her belief in making students feel "special" seems increasingly questionable, though, and forces represented by RICHARD MARTIN could bring her world crashing down. At least such characters as "her" Vice Principal (KATY WATKINS), inept teacher (SIMON IRWIN débuting with Chesil here), the student he is in an affair with (HANNAH MATHESON) and the much teased Dr Boyle (ALEC WALTERS) may get a chance to come out of her shadow.