RIVERSIDE Drama Company are back on stage at Long Eaton's St John's Church Hall next month with another sidesplitting comedy. 

Their latest offering is the brilliant if exhaustingly-titled Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Present a Murder Mystery which will be performed at St John's Church Hall, Canal Street on May 13 to 15. 

One of a series of 'Farndale' comedies written by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr, this hilarious show will have audiences crying with laughter as the ladies produce a seamless evening of disaster when they present their cunning whodunnit 'Murder at Check-mate Manor'. 

Every drama group knows the horrors of what can go wrong on the night and the ladies of the F.A.H.E.T.G. are no different. 

Scenery collapses, cues are missed and lines forgotten as the excruciating evening unfolds! 

But the Farndale Ladies continue to tackle this Agatha Christie-style romp with great aplomb.

The usual gathering of likely and unlikely characters at Checkmate Manor, assembling for the reading of a will, soon leads to murder - but who committed it? 

All sorts of suspects abound - from the obvious 'was it Pawn the Butler?' to Regine the French Maid, who is not all she seems, via an improbable cast of Bishops, Rooks and Kings! 

Was the family solicitor, Mr Goodbody, somehow implicated? Bodies start to pile up all over the place and Inspector O'Reilly is faced with one of his most testing cases to date to bring the culprit to justice. 

Led by their indomitable Chair, Mrs Reece, the Ladies maintain the suspense right to the very end. 

And just to make the price of admission extra-specially worth it, they have even arranged not only a fashion show for the more discerning audience, but a whodunnit quiz for all to enjoy while helping O'Reilly bring the murderer to book. 

Directed by Pat Tuffin, the play features Liz Turner as Mrs Reece, Pat Clarke as Audrey, John Lomas as Gordon, Janet Bradbery as Thelma and Liz O'Hara as Felicity. 

Tickets are now on sale, priced £5 or £3.50 concessions, and can be bought by calling 0115 8750506 or via the group's website at www.riversidedrama.com.