Do you remember the drab 1950s holiday camp and third-rate entertainers of BBC TV's situation comedy Hi-de-Hi? If you enjoyed these programmes featuring wonderful performances from, among others, the late Simon Cadell and Ruth Madoc, then come and see the stage version in Ilfracombe, Devon.

Studio Theatre – to which I belong – is bringing the well-loved characters from David Croft's and Jimmy Perry's Hi-De-Hi to the stage of Ilfracombe's Landmark Theatre in Ilfracombe this May.

Apart from performances by some of the original cast in 1983 and 1984, Studio Theatre is one of the first theatre groups nationally to stage this production and the first in the South West.

See posh Cambridge professor Jeffery Fairbrother as he takes the reins at Maplin's Holiday Camp, closely watched by doleful chief Yellowcoat Gladys Pugh, while working-class comic Ted and his hapless sidekick Spike dream up all kinds of mischief. Witness the trials and tribulations of the entertainers in their typical 1950s British holiday camp as they struggle to amuse campers with their antics, stories and songs.

Will Jeffrey success in educating the campers? Will Gladys get her professor? Will Ted's money-making schemes work? Will Peggy ever get to be a Yellowcoat? Find out in Hi-De-Hi.

Performances are from Thursday 24th May to Saturday 26th May 2007 starting at 8.15pm.

Book your tickets now by calling the Landmark box office on 01271 324242 or book direct at www.northdevontheatres.org.uk. Ticket prices £10 (concessions £9).

Performed in a theatre at a seaside resort with its own holiday camp, what better place to see this production?

Ho-de-Ho!

Robert Zarywacz