Unity Wroe rounds up the week's top stage shows around Sussex, updated every Friday.

THE LOVER, Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton, Sunday.

Gobo Theatre Company has resurrected Harold Pinter's engaging and surprising novel about marriage.

The play deals with a middle-aged wife and husband who turn to a lover and a whore to invigorate their flagging relationship.

But as the plot unfolds, it is revealed all is not as it would appear.

Tickets cost £6 (£5 concessions). Call 01273 647100.

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE, Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton, Saturday.

In the mid-Eighties, a breakthrough coming-of-age film hit our screens.

Hanif Kureishi's My Beautiful Laundrette told of a guilt-free gay romance set among the racial tension of Thatcher's Britain.

Snap Theatre has adapted and updated the story, which is now set against the entrepreneurial spirit of Blair's Britain.

Tickets cost £8 (£6.50 concessions). Call 01273 647100.

WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND, Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, Monday until April 27.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash hit musical arrives from the West End for a two-week run.

Based on the film starring Hayley Mills, the story tells of a girl who believes a hiding fugitive is Jesus.

Set among a number of powerful songs, including the Boyzone hit No Matter What, the town's children vow to protect the charismatic stranger.

Tickets cost £10 to £26.50. Call 01323 412000.

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN, Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, Tuesday until April 20
Three children's lives are turned upside down when their beloved father goes away unexpectedly.

Based on Edith Nesbitt's classic adventure story, the siblings and their mother are forced to leave their big town-house for a small cottage in the country.

As the family adapt to rural life, one mystery remains - where is father?

Tickets cost £10.50 to £14.50. Call 01323 412000.