WHEN a leading amateur actor is knocked over on his way to the theatre, fate would have it that the driver of the car is the play’s author, who agrees to step in to fill the role.

But, by coincidence, his former fiancée is in the audience and lays claim to having written the play herself.

This clash of authorship gives rise to unrest and ill-temper among the cast and the play ultimately has to be improvised to effect some sort of ending.

Nick Broadhead’s play has something of the Noises Off about it, particularly when the actors drop out of their roles to play themselves, with James McIntosh particularly strong as the lothario leading man and Roger Mitchell and Lisa Jonsson continually at loggerheads as the play’s co-authors.

Clare Wilson’s star-struck paramedic and Paul Jones’ cross-dressing policeman add further implausibility to the bizarre storyline in director Lisa Allan’s maiden production.