Relationships are explored in Bedroom Farce, an Alan Ayckbourn play coming to the Apollo Theatre, Newport, next month. 

Trevor and Susannah, whose marriage is on the rocks, inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest - three couples whose own relationships are tenuous at best.

Taking place sequentially in the three beleaguered couples' bedrooms during one endless Saturday night of co-dependence and dysfunction - beds, tempers and domestic order are ruffled, leading all the players to an hilariously touching epiphany. 

Ayckbourn's clever uses of time and space makes this a very intricate and sophisticated comedy while also portraying the deteriorating and rebuilding of relationships among the couples.  

Ayckbourn is one of the most prolific and widely performed of living English language playwrights, having written 74 full-length plays - with the 1975 Bedroom Farce one of the most popular. 

Director Gwen Stevens said: "You can’t really go wrong with an Ayckbourn, with his wonderfully timed lines and realistic characters. 

"We all know people just like the characters in his play. It could sound as though all the disasters make a depressing evening’s entertainment, but you will see it is full of laughs from start to finish."

Tickets are available now, ans the play is on from February 2 to February 10 (no performances Sunday or Monday).