Farce is due for a comeback and this tasty example is right up there leading the trouser-dropping stakes.

True, you have to be in the mood for a laugh to appreciate characters rushing from living room to bedroom, to bedroom, to bedroom, with anguished expressions on their faces and voices pitched high with swift-changing exasperation.

But once you start chuckling, you're hooked.

The never-quite-sexual antics of the occupants of an upmarket converted barn some distance from Paris need only the addition of a squirting soda syphon or an ice cube down the front of a dress to tip the audience into a giggling abyss.

Do all farces have the same plot, with just peripheral detail changes?

Here, Robert (Drop The Dead Donkey) Duncan is planning a naughty weekend with Melanie (Generation Game) Stace in the absence of his wife Vicki ('Allo 'Allo) Michelle who, it turns out, is embroiled with Giles (Bread) Watling, while Glenda (Emmerdale) McKay as a visiting caterer - delightful in a Su Pollard way - bounces in regularly from the kitchen to complicate things.

Wipe your eyes or you may miss some of the nuances as deception is piled upon deception.

The colourful set adds to the Gallic flavour of this touring production, the cast of which obviously love their roles.

Miss it at Worthing and there is another chance to see it at The Hawth, Crawley, from October 29 to November 2.

Review by Mike Bacon, mike.bacon@theargus.co.uk